Augustus Hamilton (1 March 1853 – 12 October 1913) was a New Zealand ethnologist, biologist and museum director. He was born in

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on 1 March 1853. He wrote on the fishing and seafoods of the ancient

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. He also wrote on the art and workmanship of the Maori in New Zealand with a series of illustrations (from photographs). Hamilton was President of the

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between 1909 and 1911; preceded by G. M. Thomson and followed by

Thomas Frederic Cheeseman Thomas Frederick Cheeseman (8 June 184515 October 1923) was a New Zealand botanist. He was also a naturalist who had wide-ranging interests, such that he even described a few species of sea slugs (marine gastropod molluscs). Biography Chee ...

Family life

Hamilton married Hope Ellen McKain in Napier on 22 September 1882. He had a daughter, Pearl, and a son, Harold.

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1853 births 1913 deaths New Zealand biologists New Zealand curators New Zealand ethnologists People from Poole English emigrants to New Zealand Ethnobiologists Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand {{NewZealand-biologist-stub