Campaigners for camouflage: Abbott H. Thayer and William J. Dakin

Leonardo

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-41

  Elias, Ann ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

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EID: 63149175793     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/leon.2009.42.1.36     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. William J. Dakin, "Camouflage Bulletin No. 7," October 9, 1942, Camouflage Report 1939-1945, AWM 81 [77 Part 4], Australian War Memorial, Canberra, p. 7
2. Kipling was casually associated with Thayer's circle through the Dublin Art Colony when he lived in Vermont between 1892 and 1896: "Your Membership Supports Our Mission," Dublin Art Colony Vol. 4, No. 3, 3 (Fall 2002). His sister-in-law Josephine Balestier (Mrs. Theodore Dunham) was a sitter for Thayer in 1896, the last year that Kipling lived in Vermont: Thomas B. Brumbaugh research material on Abbott Thayer and other artists, 1876-1994, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, 〈http://siris-archives.si.edu/ ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001∼ !215913!0&term〉, accessedjuly 9, 2007
3. Nelson C. White, Abbott H. Thayer: Painter and Naturalist (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Printers, 1951) p. 158
4. William J. Dakin to Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, September 30, 1942, Series Number C1707, File 19, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, p. 2
5. Roy R. Behrens, False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage (Dysart, IA: Bobolink Books, 2002) p. 55
6. For biographical information on Dakin see Ursula Bygott and K.J. Cable, "Dakin, William John (1883-1950)," Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 8 (Melbourne, VIC: Melbourne University Press, 1981) pp. 190-191
7. Frank C. Hinder diaries, Private Papers, ID Number PR88/133, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
8. William J. Dakin, Elements of Animal Biology: A Text Book Adapted for Use in Australia (1918; repr. London, England: Macmillan, 1948) p. 128
9. The citation reads: "Dakin, W.J. 1921. Some Visual Organs and Their Bearing Upon Evolutionary Biology (An Inaugural Lecture). Liverpool, University Press, pp. 3-20,"
10. in Hugh B. Cott, Adaptive Coloration in Animals (London, England: Methuen, 1940; repr. 1957) p. 444
11. William J. Dakin, The Art of Camouflage 2nd ed. (Canberra, ACT: Department of Defence, 1942) p. 4
12. Sharon Kingsland, "Abbott Thayer and the Protective Coloration Debate." Journal of the History of Biology Vol. 11, No. 2, 223-244 (Fall 1978)
13. Reginald E. Atkinson and William J. Dakin, Sex Hygiene and Sex Education (Sydney, NSW: Angus and Robertson, 1918) p. 138
14. William J. Dakin, "Concealment and Camouflage of the Individual in Warfare," 1944, Camouflage Report 1939-1945, Appendices K-N, AWM 81 [77 Part 3], Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, p. 48
15. Abbott Thayer, "The Law Which Underlies Protective Coloration," Auk Vol. 13, No. 2, 124-129 (April 1896)
16. Alexander Nemerov, "Vanishing Americans: Abbott Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Attraction of Camouflage." American Art Vol. 11, 50-81 (Summer 1997)
17. Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1975) p. 29
18. Abbott Thayer to Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 3, 1917, Selections from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, 〈http://www.aaa. si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/presidents/rooseveltfthayer. htm〉, accessed May 30, 2007
19. William J. Dakin, "Notes of Conference Held at Premiers Department," 1940, Series Number SP1048/7, Control Symbol S10/1/329, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, p. 5
20. See Roy R. Behrens, "The Theories of Abbott H. Thayer: Father of Camouflage," Leonardo Vol. 21, No. 3, 291-296 (1988)
21. William J. Dakin, Australian Seashores (Sydney, NSW: Angus and Robertson, 1952) p. 74
22. According to Patrick Brantlinger, by 1898 Kipling and Roosevelt were friends. See Patrick Brantlinger, "Kipling's 'The White Man's Burden' and Its Afterlives," ELT Vol. 50, No. 2, 172-191 (2007)
23. Gerald H. Thayer, Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern: Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer's Disclosures (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1909) p. 135