George Hudson (entomologist)
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George Vernon Hudson FRSNZ was a New Zealand entomologist credited with proposing the modern daylight saving time. He was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal in 1923.
Hudson c. 1920
Hudson in 1907, as a member of the Auckland Islands party of the Sub Antarctic Expedition
The Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition of 1907 was organised by the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. The main aim of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand by i
George Hudson (entomologist)
…1883, aged 16, he began working at the post office in Wellington, where he eventually became chief clerk, retiring in 1918. Hudson was a member of the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition. Its main aim was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand by investigating the Auckland and Campbell islands but botanical, biological, and…
Auckland Islands scientific personnel
Beetle (Prodontria longitarsis) collected at the Snares on 15 November 1907
Survivors of the Dundonald shipwreck on board Hinemoa with their coracle frame