allan, thomson, geologist, james, allan, thomson, july, 1881, 1928, zealand, geologist, scientific, administrator, museum, director, allan, thomsonbornjames, allan, thomson, 1881, july, 1881dunedin, zealanddied6, 1928, 1928, aged, wellington, zealandrelativesm. James Allan Thomson 27 July 1881 6 May 1928 was a New Zealand geologist scientific administrator and museum director Allan ThomsonBornJames Allan Thomson 1881 07 27 27 July 1881Dunedin New ZealandDied6 May 1928 1928 05 06 aged 46 Wellington New ZealandRelativesMargaret Thomson daughter He was born in Dunedin New Zealand in 1881 where his father was a science teacher at Otago Boys High School He graduated from the University of Otago in 1904 the same year as Sir Peter Buck 1 Selected as New Zealand s first Rhodes Scholar Thomson studied geology played rugby rowed and ran at St John s College Oxford After doing geology in Australia he was appointed palaeontologist with the New Zealand Geological Survey in 1911 and then succeeded Augustus Hamilton as director of the Dominion Museum now Te Papa in 1914 2 He was accepted as a geologist on Robert Falcon Scott s Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica but he developed pulmonary tuberculosis and was forced to withdraw The tuberculosis continued to trouble him and his health declined 2 He was president of the Royal Society of New Zealand for a short time before his death in 1928 he was preceded by Bernard Cracroft Aston who also stepped in after his death until the appointment of Clinton Coleridge Farr 3 His daughter Margaret became a noted film director 4 Selected works editBrachiopod morphology and genera recent and tertiary Dominion Museum 1927 Wellington New Zealand References edit Allan Thomson New Zealand s first Rhodes scholar PDF Otago ac nz Retrieved 17 September 2017 a b Hornibrook N De B James Allan Thomson Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Ministry for Culture and Heritage Retrieved 1 December 2011 Royal Society Te Aparangi Presidents Royalsociety org nz Retrieved 17 September 2017 Margaret Thomson NZ On Screen Nzonscreen com Retrieved 17 September 2017 External links editWorks by Allan Thomson at Biodiversity Heritage Library nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp This biographical article about a New Zealand academic is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Allan Thomson geologist amp oldid 1087167822, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
