Albert Sherbourne Le Souef (30 January 1877 – 31 March 1951) was an Australian zoologist. Le Souef was the son of

Albert Alexander Cochrane Le Souef Albert Alexander Cochrane Le Souef (17 April 1828 – 7 May 1902) was an Australian zoologist. Le Souef was the director of the Melbourne Zoo from 1882 to 1902. In 1853 he married Caroline, daughter of ornithologist John Cotton. Their sons i ...

(1828–1902) and Caroline Le Souef (1834–1915), daughter of ornithologist John Cotton. Two of his brothers were zoologists

Ernest Albert Le Souef Ernest Albert Le Souef (13 September 1869 – 27 November 1937), sometimes referred to as Col. Le Souef, was an Australian zoologist. Le Souef was born in Melbourne, the son of Albert Alexander Cochrane Le Souef and Caroline Le Souef, daughter o ...

and

Dudley Le Souef William Henry Dudley Le Souef (28 September 1856 – 6 September 1923) was a founding member and founding Secretary of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901, also serving as President of that body 1907–1909. His egg collec ...

. He was the first director of the Taronga Zoo from 1916 to 1939. He published ''The Wild Animals of Australasia'' (1926) with

Henry Burrell Henry (Harry) James Burrell OBE (19 January 1873 – 29 July 1945) was an Australian naturalist who specialised in the study of monotremes. He was the first person to successfully keep the platypus in captivity and was a lifelong collector ...

, with text on bats contributed by

Ellis Troughton Ellis Le Geyt Troughton (born in Sydney on 29 April 1893; died 30 November 1974) was an Australian zoologist and mammalogist. Biography Ellis Troughton began to exercise his interest in mammals at fourteen years of age, taking a role at the Au ...

but otherwise largely plagiarised from an earlier work by

Oldfield Thomas Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist. Career Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for the first time. He was appoin ...

References

Bright Sparcs biography

External links

Le Souef, Albert Sherbourne (1877-1951)
National Library of Australia, ''Trove, People and Organisation'' record for Albert Sherbourne Le Souef Australian zoologists History of Western Australia 1877 births 1951 deaths {{Australia-scientist-stub