Ludwig Glauert
Ludwig Glauert
museum curator. He is known for work on Pleistocene mammal fossils,[1] and as a museum curator who played an important role in natural science of Western Australia.[2]
Glauert was born in
Sheffield Royal Grammar School,[4] at Firth University College and the Technical School, studying geology, becoming a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1900.[5]
In 1908 he and his wife migrated to
fieldwork at the Margaret River caves, finding fossils of several species of extinct monotremes and marsupials in the Pleistocene limestone there.[5]
He was a member of the
West Australian Naturalist as well as in Western Mail in 'The Naturalist' columns[6]
He was appointed MBE in the 1960 New Year Honours.
Glauert died in Perth.
Awards
See also
References
- ^ Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea By John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, Suzanne: pg 21
- ^ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia[dead link]
- ^ ADB Online
- King Edward VII School (Sheffield), formerly SRGS
- ^ a b Jenkins, C.F.H., 'Glauert, Ludwig (1879–1963), Museum Curator', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 25–26.[1]
- ^ "The naturalist". Western Mail. Vol. XLIV, no. 2, 281. Western Australia. 31 October 1929. p. 45. Retrieved 2 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Glauert", p. 101).
