James Hector
| Dr James Hector | |||||
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| Born | 1834 | ||||
| Died | 1907 | ||||
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naturalist medical geologist | ||||
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Sir James Hector (16 March 1834 – 6 November 1907) was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employed man of science in New Zealand, and during this period he dominated the Colony's scientific institutions in a way that no single man has since.
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on the Indian tribes NW of the Boundary Line as seen by Capt. Palliser’s Expedition – by James Hector MD and W.S.W. Vaux MA Read 16 apr 1861