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Henry Travers
Henry Travers
Born	Henry Hammersley Travers; 1844; Hythe, Kent, England
Died	16 January 1926; Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealand
Education	Nelson College
Occupation(s)	Naturalist, collector, taxidermist
Relatives	William Travers (father)

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.

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]

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

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

^ "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.