Early Tasmanian ornithology: the correspondence of Ronald Campbell Gunn and James Grant, 1836-1838.

Cambridge MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2009.
Octavo, publisher's cloth, 263 pp. figures.

This correspondence is the earliest attempt to identify and arrange taxonomically the Tasmania birds and is some of the earliest avian taxonomic work by residents of Australia. It illustrates the difficulties implicit in taxonomic work in a pre-Darwinian era.