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 |
| Died | 16 January 1926 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Education | Nelson College |
| Occupation(s) | Naturalist, collector, taxidermist |
| Relatives | William 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
editThe following species and one genus were named in his honour:[8][9]
- Mesoplodon traversii (spade-toothed whale)
- Petroica traversi (black robin)
- Pimelea traversii, a shrub
- Pseudowintera traversii, a woody shrub
- Traversia lyalli (Lyall's wren)
- Veronica traversii, an ornamental plant
Bibliography
edit- Travers, Henry Hammersley. Notes on the Chatham Islands (lat. 44° 30' S.,long. 175° W.) The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. (1867) 9:135–144.
References
edit- ^ "Travers, Henry Hammersley". Cyclopedia of New Zealand (Wellington Provincial District). Wellington: Cyclopedia Company. 1897. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ "England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975". Ancestry.com Operations. 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ a b Shepherd, R. Winsome. "Travers, William Thomas Locke". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ "Full school list of Nelson College, 1856–2005". Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006 (CD-ROM) (6th ed.). 2006.
- ^ "Travers, Henry". Collections Online. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Deaths". Evening Post. 16 February 1928. p. 1. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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