LC control no. | n 2015190160 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | MacGillivray, P. H. (Paul Howard), 1834-1895 |
Variant(s) | MacGillivray, Paul Howard, 1834-1895 |
Birth date | 1834 |
Death date | 1895-07-09 |
Found in | On a case of epithelioma, in which the tongue was successfully removed, 1870: t.p. (P.H. MacGillivray, A.M., Surgeon to the Bendigo Hospital) Australian Dictionary of Biography, November 10, 2015 (Paul Howard MacGillivray; born: 1834 (Edinburgh); died: July 9, 1895 (at his house in Bendigo); a scientist and medical practitioner by occupation; also became known as one of the most prominent and notable Australian naturalists of the time ; wrote and published "A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns growing in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen;" in September 1852 chose to practise medicine in London; later that year, MacGillivray migrated to Melbourne, Australia; acted as a surgeon in the hospital of Bendigo) |