 He was a contributor of articles to a number of publications, including "Walkabout", the latter mostly on Australian bird life and history.Visiting England in 1938, Chisholm discovered a large number of documents relating to the nineteenth-century ornithologist John Gould.They included the diary kept by Gould's principal collector, John Gilbert, during his participation in Ludwig Leichhardt’s 1844-45 expedition to Port Essington.