Taphrospilus
Well-known member
And later (The Emu XXII, 1923) he´d moved, some 200 km, to Freemantle (WA):
I think it is the other way round he moved from Freemantle to Narrogin as the EMU Volume (I linked) where it is written that he was member since 1917 is from 1944. Any relationship to this family here? Just a guess. Or relative to John Joseph Higham here e.g. one of his five sons? But looks like no of the five sons fit J.B. here.
According to EMU 1977 p. 42 and 44
On the first night his party slept at Una but because there were seventeen visitors there (among them the grazier-ornithologist Jack Higham, of Glen Florrie, who was to become a firm friend and companion later) he had to sleep in the store.
and
In connexion with the former he was made deputy to his old grazier-ornithologist friend J. B. Higham, as a member of the old Fauna Protection Advisory Committee (1955) and in 1968 he took the place of Higham when he retired, as a full member of its successor, the Western Australian Wildlife Authority.
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