Eustace William Ferguson born 24 October 1884 (

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,) died 18 July 1927 (

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) was a New Zealand pathologist and entomologist., He was the third child of

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and Isabella Adie (1854-1929). His eldest brother was Sir John Alexander Ferguson (1881-1969), bibliographer and judge, who wrote the first bibliography of Australia. He was a member from 1908 and president in 1926-27 of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, president of the

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in 1922-23, a member of the Royal societies of New South Wales and South Australia and of the Royal Institute of Tropical Medicine, London, an associate member of the

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and a member of the Great Barrier Reef Committee. He and his wife, Jessie Perry (1886-1967) had six children, several of whom were notable: *Eustace William Ferguson, General practitioner and surgeon based in Newcastle, NSW. *

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, Medical Practitioner, Professor of Occupational Health, University of Sydney
RACP College role obituary
* Kenneth Adie Ferguson, CSIRO Researcher, Former Director of CSIRO Institute of Animal Health, Discover of th
Ferguson plot
method for assessing the electrophoretic mobility of solutes. * Edward Stephen Perry Ferguson, Medical Practitioner based in Toowoombah, Queensland. * Wilga Jessie Ferguson, Medical Practitioner * Hugh Bishop Ferguson

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Revision of Australian Syrphidae (Flower flies)Bioversity Heritage Library listing for E.W. Ferguson

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