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George Prideaux Robert Harris

1775 - 1810

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George Prideaux Robert Harris (1775–1810) was the deputy surveyor in the early days of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia, from settlement in 1803 until his death in Hobart Town in 1810. He was also an explorer, artist and naturalist who described many of the plants and marsupials native to the Island, including the Tasmanian devil and the thylacine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Prideaux Robert Harris is the 765th most popular biologist (down from 497th in 2019). (down from 2,916th in 2019)

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Among biologists, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 765 out of 1,097Before him are John Hutchinson, Domenico Vandelli, Bertha Lutz, Adam Lonicer, Tomitaro Makino, and John Ellis. After him are Hwang Woo-suk, Wilhelm Weinberg, Otto von Münchhausen, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, David Don, and Robert Ridgway.

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Among people born in 1775, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 43Before him are Thomas Girtin, Juan Martín Díez, Anna Harrison, Bhimsen Thapa, William Thompson, and Walter Savage Landor. After him are Honoré Charles Reille, Karl Freiherr von Müffling, José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza, Carlo Porta, Pauline Auzou, and Francisco Ramón Vicuña. Among people deceased in 1810, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 27Before him are Jacques-André Naigeon, Antoine-Denis Chaudet, József Alvinczi, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires. After him are William Martin, Charles Brockden Brown, Said bin Ahmad, Johann Gottfried Seume, Tomás António Gonzaga, and John Hoppner.

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