Allan McEvey's Field Journal: Across the Nullarbor, 1962.

Allan Reginald McEvey became the Curator of Birds at the National Museum of Victoria in 1955. For the next 30 years he made an invaluable contribution to the museum’s ornithological collection, particularly to the avian osteological (bone) collection, which he developed into one of the best in the world. He was President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) from 1968 to 1969 and was elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1980.
McEvey had a passion for scientific illustration. He published material on the art of John Cotton, John William Lewin and John Gould and was the co-founder of the Society of Wildlife Artists (now called the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia ). He was an avid artist himself and his own field diaries are filled with sketches of birds and other wildlife.
McEvey was also an active fieldworker. His 1962 field journal is his account of the British Museum Expedition across the Nullarbor from Melbourne to Perth. The total number of tasks for this dataset is: 248, number transcribed is 248 and number validated is 219.