Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Australian National Herbarium
Biographical Notes
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Wild Life was a Melbourne-based, Australian, illustrated, monthly natural history magazine that was published from 1938 to 1954. It was established by newspaper proprietor Sir Keith Murdoch and largely edited by Philip Crosbie Morrison throughout its existence.
During the 1930s and 1940's and 1950's Crosbie Morrison became Australia's best known naturalist. As a journalist with commercial radio and with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, he made regular national nature study broadcasts to schools and other radio listeners for 20 years.
He was also editor of Wild Life, a magazine which fostered interest in Australia's natural history and conservation from 1938-54. The magazine survived the war years and the severe paper rationing that continued after the war.
The standard of B&W photography from its writers and its readers is quite amazing for the time. The magazine also published meeting times and excursion dates for the various field-naturalist clubs around Australia, and a 'Night Sky' star chart each month.
From an historical perspective it is interesting to look at some articles from this period:
Botanical topics:
Source: Extracted from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Life_(magazine)
Pers. comm. M.Fagg 2024
Covers: 1942 (top) and 1949 (lower two) Wild Life covers