Flynn exhibit

Tiliqua scincoides - Blue tongued lizard

Lake Rodway & Flynn's Tarn from the summit of Cradle Mountain

University Council and staff, 1924

University staff, 1924; (l. to r., top) Dr. A.L. McAulay, H.P. Tuck, C. Malthus, Prof. J.B. Brigden, J.A. Johnson, Prof. Burn, Prof. D. Copland,; (centre) A.R. Hewer, P.L. Griffiths, Lt-Col. Thomas (Registrar), E.A. Counsel, C.C. Dudley, G.S. King, L. Rodway; (bottom) Prof. R. Dunbabin, Prof. Williams, W.J.T. Stops (Vice-Chancellor), Sir Elliott Lewis (Chancellor), Prof. McDougall, Prof. T.T. Flynn, Prof. Lucas

Aerial photograph University of Tasmania, Domain site 1939

Photos of the Biology buildings at the Domain site

Photos of the original Biology building, the lower storey was built in 1909, the upper storey in 1936, the entrance and the Zoology and the Botany laboratory (V.V. Hickman photographs)

Queen Alexandra Hospital

Queen Alexandra Hospital, Hampden Road, Battery Point, Tasmania. This is the hospital where Lily (later Marelle) Flynn gave birth to Errol Flynn in 1909.

Theodore Thomson Flynn on Errol's yacht, 'The Zacca"

Theodore Thomson Flynn and wife Marelle

Theodore Thomson Flynn and his wife Marelle taking friends from St Albans to visit Errol’s film set

Professor T. T. Flynn cropped from Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club group photo Easter Camp 1909.

Pressland House advertisement from Walsh's Almanac of 1889.

Pressland House’, Melville Street, Hobart as it appeared in an advertisement in Walsh’s Almanac of 1899. This is where Errol and his father boarded in the 1920s when Errol attended Hobart High School.

Scientific dredging

Field Naturalists, under the direction of Professor T T Flynn of the University of Tasmania, carried out some of the first scientific dredging along Tasmania’s coastline. The only man who can be identified is the photographer Beattie, a member of the Club who took many photographs of their activities

Sea spider sketch from the papers of the Royal Society of Tasmania

Group of students in front of University, Domain c1920s

Group of staff and students at the University on the Domain c. 1924. Professor Flynn is in the back row on the far left.

Marelle Flynn and baby Errol Flynn

Thylacine skull 1919

Flynn held the post of honorary curator of the Tasmanian Museum from 1912-1918. The Museum has in its collection a complete thylacine skeleton collected by Flynn in 1919.

A glimpse [of the Aurora] from within the cavern

A glimpse [of the Aurora] from within the cavern [in the wall of the shelf-ice of the Mertz Glacier Tongue, Commonwealth Bay, Adelie Land, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, December 1913]

Errol Flynn and his father Professor Theodore Thomson Flynn

Flynn's lantern slides of specimens

Lantern slides from T T Flynn’s collection brought back from Queen’s University, Belfast by Eric Guiler

Theodore Thomson FlynnTasmania's first Professor of Biology

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