Guy Chester Shortridge (1880–1949) was a South African mammalogist who undertook expeditions in his own state, in Java, Guatemala, Southern India, Burma and at the prompting of Oldfield Thomas travelled to Southwest Australia.
Shortridge eventually returned to South Africa and was director of the Kaffrarian Museum in King William's Town at the end of his life.
[1] His collections in Southwest Australia, made between 1904 and 1907,[3] were at the coastal forests around Bunbury, Busselton, Margaret River and King George Sound.
In 1908 Shortridge was engaged by the Zoological Society to capture live mammals in Guatemala, his next journey was with the British Ornithologists' Union on a major expedition to New Guinea.
[5] His notes and letters during the period in Southwest Australia have provided information to later researchers, in particular the examination of the local extinction of mammals at the time of his visit.