WILLIAM WALL’S WHALE, A CATCH FOR THE MUSEUM!

WILLIAM WALL'S WHALE, A CATCH FOR THE MUSEUM!

Irish born Mr  William Sheridan Wall served as Curator of the Australian Museum in Sydney during  the 1840s and 50s.  He personally collected and preserved many native birds, but his greatest legacy to the institution was a creature from the deep. On December 5 1849 the schooner Thistle

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