BIOLOGIST

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Prideaux Robert Harris has received more than 20,964 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. George Prideaux Robert Harris is the 497th most popular biologist (down from 413th in 2019).

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 497 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Georg Wagler, Ardem Patapoutian, Elmer Drew Merrill, Moritz Wagner, Wilhelm Pfeffer, and Charles De Geer. After him are Jules Émile Planchon, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Francis Collins, Edward Blyth, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, and Adolf Mayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 33. Before him are Louisa Adams, Juan Martín Díez, Daniel O'Connell, Carlo Rossi, Stefan Bogoridi, and Charles Lamb. After him are Nicolas Isouard, Honoré Charles Reille, Bhimsen Thapa, François Marius Granet, Antonio Bertoloni, and Constance Mayer. Among people deceased in 1810, George Prideaux Robert Harris ranks 23. Before him are Jacques-François Menou, Alejandro Malaspina, József Alvinczi, Jacques-André Naigeon, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, and Antoine-Denis Chaudet. After him are Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Said bin Ahmad, Johan Zoffany, Daniel Gottlob Türk, and Charles Brockden Brown.

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