The H. L. White Collection is a collection of Australian birds’ eggs originally accumulated by wealthy pastoralist, amateur ornithologist and oologist Henry Luke White (1860-1927).
On White's death it passed to the National Museum of Victoria in Melbourne.
It is housed in the original custom-built Queensland maple cabinets commissioned by White.
[1] White's interest in egg-collecting began in boyhood and continued throughout his life.
He increased the size of his own collection by purchasing others, including those of F. Lawson Whitlock,[2] Dudley Le Souef and Sidney Jackson, the latter of whom he subsequently employed as curator of his egg and skin collection as well as a collector of additional specimens.