LC control no. | no2014028264 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Stead, David G. (David George), 1877-1957 |
Variant(s) | Physalia, 1877-1957 Dinnawan, 1877-1957 |
Birth date | 18770306 |
Death date | 19570802 |
Place of birth | Australia |
Found in | General report upon the fisheries of British Malaya with recommendations for future development, 1923.: t.p. (David G. Stead) Australian Dictionary of Biography, viewed website Feb. 20, 2014: (David George Stead (1877-1957), naturalist, was born on 6 March 1877 at St Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; published Giants and Pigmies of the Deep and The Tree Book in 1933, The Rabbit in Australia in 1935 and Sharks and Rays of Australian Seas posthumously in 1963; often wrote under the pen names 'Physalia' and 'Dinnawan', and edited Australian Wild Life, the Australian Geographer and Australian Naturalist, as well as the Shakespeare Head Press Ltd's nature series; commemorated by the David George Stead Memorial Wildlife Research Foundation of Australia and by Mount Stead in the Blue Mountains; death: 2 August 1957, Watsons Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) |