Albert Sherbourne Le Souef (30 January 1877 – 31 March 1951) was an Australian zoologist.[1]

Le Souef was the son of Albert Alexander Cochrane Le Souef (1828–1902) and Caroline Le Souef (1834–1915), daughter of ornithologist John Cotton.[2] Two of his brothers were zoologists Ernest Albert Le Souef and Dudley Le Souef. He was the first director of the Taronga Zoo from 1916 to 1939. He published The Wild Animals of Australasia (1926) with Henry Burrell, with text on bats contributed by Ellis Troughton but otherwise largely plagiarised from an earlier work by Oldfield Thomas.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Butcher, A. Dunbavin, "Le Souef, Albert Sherbourne (1877–1951)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 12 June 2021
  2. ↑ "Family Notices". Weekly Times. No. 387. Victoria, Australia. 3 February 1877. p. 17. Retrieved 12 June 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Strahan, R.; Cayley, N.W. (1987). What mammal is that?. Angus & Robertson. pp. viii–ix. ISBN 0207153256.


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