1. Thomas Cheeseman was a naturalist who had wide-ranging interests, such that he even described a few species of sea slugs.
16 Facts About Thomas Cheeseman
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Thomas Cheeseman came to New Zealand at the age of eight with his parents on the Artemesia, arriving in Auckland on 4 April 1854.
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Thomas Cheeseman started studying the flora of New Zealand, and in 1872 he published an accurate and comprehensive account of the plant life of the Waitakere Ranges.
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Thomas Cheeseman published papers almost every year until his death.
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When Thomas Cheeseman's research began, the botany of New Zealand was quite poorly known.
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Thomas Cheeseman sometimes travelled with his friend Mr J Adams, of the Thames High School, after whom he named the species Senecio adamsii and Elytranthe adamsii.
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Thomas Cheeseman published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society a full account of the flora of Rarotonga, the chief island of the Cook Islands.
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Thomas Cheeseman married Rosetta Keesing, of a notable Jewish family of Auckland city, in November 1889.
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In some of his publications, Thomas Cheeseman speculated as to the possible origins of the New Zealand sub-Antarctic flora.
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Thomas Cheeseman had written an early paper on the naturalised plants of the Auckland Provincial District.
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Thomas Cheeseman donated his own herbarium of the flowering plants and vascular cryptogams to the Auckland Institute.
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Thomas Cheeseman published 83 articles in the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Thomas Cheeseman named ten sea snails, half of which have become synonyms.
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Thomas Cheeseman was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and the Zoological Society.
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Thomas Cheeseman was made a Corresponding Membership of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and awarded the Gold Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society, the botanical equivalent to a Nobel Medal, in 1923.
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Thomas Cheeseman served as the President of the New Zealand Institute from 1911 to 1913.