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Finsch, Friedrich Hermann Otto
Personne · 1839-1917

Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for German colonisation in Southeast Asia. Several species of bird (such as Oenanthe finschii, Alophoixus finschii, Psittacula finschii) are named after him as also the town of Finschhafen in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea and a crater on the moon

Galton, Francis, Sir
Personne · 1822-1911

Sir Francis Galton was a British polymath and the originator of the behavioural genetics movement during the Victorian era and was Charles Darwin's half-cousin

Graham, Frederick
Personne · fl 1897

Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office