Peter Crowcroft, Australian, tap dancing champion of Tasmania, but he done his degree work in England under Elton. And he also was associated for a brief time, British Museum. He went back to Australia, was director of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, but he continued his studies. He’d done studies on, among other things, mice, published a couple of small books on the behavior of mice and shrews and other creatures. But when he went back to Australia, he was determined to look out for some of the endangered species there and a particular one that was his favorite was the hairy-nosed wombat. And early on in his time at Brookfield, he attracted the interest of Bill Rutherford. Rutherford, you may remember, was a lawyer who became the director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. He couldn’t stand it long, that position, but he’d already attracted a lot of interest from rural people in terms of their legacies and estates, and so on.
