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George Hudson (entomologist)

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job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and led him to value after-hours daylight. In 1895, he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift, and after considerable interest was expressed in
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Fragments of New Zealand entomology. – a popular account of all New Zealand cicadas. The natural history of the New Zealand glow-worm. A second supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand and notes on many other native
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Born in London, Britain, on Easter Saturday, 1867 Hudson was the sixth child of Emily Jane Carnal and Charles Hudson, an artist and stained-glass window designer. By the age of 14 he had built up a collection of British
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New Zealand Neuroptera : a popular introduction to the life-histories and habits of may-flies, dragon-flies, caddis-flies and allied insects inhabiting New Zealand, including notes on their relation to
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Hudson's wife, Florence, died in 1935. They left one daughter, Florence Stella Gibbs. Hudson died on 5 April 1946 at his home "Hillview" in the Wellington suburb of
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Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Original) (1919), Hector Medal (1923), Hutton Medal (1929), T.K Sidey Medal (1933)
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but botanical, biological, and zoological surveys were also conducted. The expedition also rescued castaways from the
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An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology: Being an Introduction to the Study of Our Native Insects
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Record of George Vernon Hudson in Collections Online, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Manual of New Zealand entomology: Being an introduction to the study of our native insects.
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Hudson's collection of insects, the largest in New Zealand, is housed in the
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from funds collected to commemorate the passing of the Summer-Time Act 1927.
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FRSNZ (20 April 1867 – 5 April 1946) was a British-born New Zealand
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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1919 – Original Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
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New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera)
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New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera)
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George Hudson (disambiguation)
FRSNZ
Portrait of George Hudson later in life
London
Karori
Wellington
New Zealand
Entomologist
Biologist
Fuzzy head-and-shoulders photo of a 40-year-old man in a cloth cap and mustache
Auckland Islands
Sub Antarctic Expedition
entomologist
daylight saving time
Hector Memorial Medal
insects
The Entomologist
Nelson
Wellington
1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition
Auckland
Campbell islands
Dundonald
daylight saving time
shift-work
Christchurch
Ernest Rutherford
T. K. Sidey Medal
Royal Society of New Zealand
William Willett

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