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BY the death of Allan Riverstone McCulloch, which took place at Honolulu on September i, 1925, systematic ichthyology lost one of its foremost exponents. He was born at Sydney, New South Wales, on June 20, 1885, and at the early age of thirteen he commenced work at the Australian Museum, Sydney, as an unpaid assistant. Even in those early days young McCulloch was distinguished by his enthusiasm, his ability, and his determination to succeed. Assisted and encouraged by Mr. Edgar R. Waite, then in charge of the vertebrate section of the Australian Museum, he made rapid progress both in the study of zoology and in drawing, and when, in 1906, Waite became Curator of the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand, McCulloch succeeded him, though he was then not quite twenty-one years old. By that time he had definitely resolved to devote himself to the study of fishes, and that became his life-work, though he was skilled in all branches of zoology, and was a recognised authority on decapod Crustacea.
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A., C. Mr. A. R. McCulloch. Nature 117, 596 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117596a0
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