Background
Longman was born at Heytesbury in Wiltshire, England, and educated at Emwell House School at Warminster.
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Albert Longman
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Because of a chest weakness, in 1902 he emigrated to Australia and settled in Toowoomba, Queensland. There he, with support from local businesses, established a newspaper first called the Rag, and later the Citizen. Interested in the natural history of the area, Longman collected botanical specimens and helped establish the local field naturalists club
There the main focus of his interests turned from botany to zoology, especially vertebrate paleontology, describing new genera of fish, marine reptiles, dinosaurs and a marsupial.
Most of his 70 or so published papers appeared in the Memoirs of the He also wrote a popular column – Nature’s ways – in the Brisbane Courier-Mail. He retired from the museum in 1945 and died at his home in Brisbane in 1954.
Achievements
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President, Royal Society of Queensland (1919, 1939) President, Queensland Naturalists" Club Vice-chairman, Great Barrier Reef Committee Member, Australian National Research Council Fellow, Linnean Society of London Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Corresponding member, Zoological Society of London 1946 – Australian Natural History Medallion 1952 – Mueller Meda
Membership
In 1911 Longman moved to Brisbane to take up a position as a member of the staff of the, rising to become Acting Director in 1917 and Director in 1918.
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Australia