Part of the Sir Charles Maurice Yonge Collection on display at James Cook University, Townsville. Marine zoologist Sir Charles ( 1899-1986) , led the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of l928-1929 , sold his extensive private library of books, reports and papers relating to all aspects of the sea to the Australian Institute of Marine Science ,Townsville, passed to the James Cook University Library in 2016, housed under strict archival conditions in Special Collections.
It consists of several thousand items , including works published from the early 1700s to the 20th century. The subject range is overall marine, with malacology a strong topic.
Other topics include oceanography,fisheries,marine biology,marine botany and zoology,biographies, records of major scientific expeditions ,history, marine fiction, anthologies and poetry , even seafood cookbooks.
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| Expedition photos in album. |
Above available as JCU Open eBook at jcu. Pressbooks.pub/yonge.
