Gerard Krefft

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German-Australian zoologist and palaeontologist (1830-1881)

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Johann Ludwig (Louis) Gerard Krefft, was an Australian artist, draughtsman, scientist, and natural historian who served as the curator of the Australian Museum for 13 years (1861-1874).

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Gerard Krefft (1869) with his Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy.[13]

The "palætiological sciences" located within Whewell's (1847) Classification of Sciences.[32]

Rev. John William Colenso, DD,Bishop of Natal (1875).

Anglican Clerics' protests - from The Times, 18 December 1862.[50]

Prof. Robert Jameson (c.1847).

Charles Darwin (c.1854).

Corroboree on the Murray River: by Gerard Krefft (1857).[88]

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Johann Ludwig (Louis) Gerard Krefft, was an Australian artist, draughtsman, scientist, and natural historian who served as the curator of the Australian Museum for 13 years (1861-1874). He was one of Australia's first and most influential palaeontologists and zoologists, "some of [whose] observations on animals have not been surpassed and can no longer be equalled because of the spread of settlement.