Henry Travers (naturalist)

Henry Hammersley Travers (1844 – 16 February 1928) was a New Zealand naturalist, professional collector and taxidermist. He was the son of the politician William Travers.

Henry Travers
Born
Henry Hammersley Travers

1844
Hythe, Kent, England
Died16 January 1926
Wellington, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
EducationNelson College
Occupation(s)Naturalist, collector, taxidermist
RelativesWilliam Travers (father)

Born in Hythe, Kent, England, in 1844,[1] and baptised at Cheriton, Kent, on 13 October of that year,[2] Travers was the son of William Thomas Locke Travers and Jane Travers (née Oldham).[3] The family emigrated to New Zealand by the ship Kelso in 1849.[3] Travers was educated at Nelson College from 1856 to 1860.[4]

Specimens collected by Travers are in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[5]

Travers collected some of the last known specimens of Lyall's wren, selling them to the Colonial Museum (now Te Papa), Otago Museum and Walter Rothschild.[6]

Travers died in Wellington on 16 February 1928.[7]

Species

The following species and one genus were named in his honour:[8][9]

Bibliography

References
  1. "Travers, Henry Hammersley". Cyclopedia of New Zealand (Wellington Provincial District). Wellington: Cyclopedia Company. 1897. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  2. "England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975". Ancestry.com Operations. 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  3. Shepherd, R. Winsome. "Travers, William Thomas Locke". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  4. "Full school list of Nelson College, 1856–2005". Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006 (CD-ROM) (6th ed.). 2006.
  5. "Travers, Henry". Collections Online. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  6. Galbreath, R; Brown, D (2004). "The tale of the lighthouse-keeper's cat: Discovery and extinction of the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli)" (PDF). Notornis. 51: 193–200. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  7. "Deaths". Evening Post. 16 February 1928. p. 1. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  8. Buchanan, John (9 December 1882). Hector, James (ed.). "Art. XLI.–Additions to the Flora of New Zealand". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 15: 339. OCLC 1778777. Retrieved 7 February 2018. This addition to the flora of New Zealand was discovered in the bush, Collingwood district, Nelson, by Mr. H. H. Travers, while on a recent visit there.
  9. Bubelis, Walt (Winter 2013). "New Zealand Plants and their Collectors" (PDF). Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin: 24–25. ISSN 1046-8749. OCLC 487128332. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2018. He not only helped create the Wellington Botanic Garden but saw his passionate love of nature picked up by his son Henry (1844 -1928), who became a naturalist and professional collector. Henry Travers is responsible for the names Pseudowintera traversii, Veronica traversii, and Pimelea traversii.


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