Talk:The Western Australian Naturalist

Academic ?

The Western Australian Naturalists membership were in some part professionals, but there was a considerable number of membership who were enthusiastic ammateurs - I find the adding of the Academic journal tag problematic JarrahTree 09:45, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

• Scientific journals are a subset of academic journals. The primary occupation of a majority of authors doesn't really matter much. --Randykitty (talk) 10:20, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

OK thanks for that JarrahTree 10:21, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

In the Western Australian scientific community

This article and the subject of the article are very notable by any standard and does not deserve the tag - however as I sold my set of the full run, I need to check the physical set in the state library over the next week or so. JarrahTree 11:31, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

First location of

@JarrahTree: According to the article

The Naturalist was the first location of:

• Pseudemydura umbrina - description of the short necked tortoise
• Atrichornis clamosus - details of the rediscovery of the noisy scrub bird
• Myobatrachus gouldii - description and habits of the frog
• Macroderma gigas - giant ghost bat

I doubt that members of these species were literally discovered between the pages of the journal, so I presume that the journal was the "first location" of the description/details rather than Pseudemydura umbrina (etc) itself. A slight rewording of the bullet points here might be in order.

I'd fix it myself of course, except that according to the categories of the target articles, Myobatrachus gouldii was described in 1841, and Macroderma gigas was described in 1887 - both well before The Western Australian Naturalist was established in 1947, suggesting that the Naturalist might not have been the first location of the description of those species. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:49, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Not original description - but elaborations - further descriptions beyond the original JarrahTree 12:57, 9 January 2017 (UTC)