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Walter Howchin [B 6112] • Photograph

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Summary

Professor Walter Howchin, geologist and methodist clergyman. In 1901-23 he was governor of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery and honorary palaeontologist to the museum. Short, with a white beard, in old age he still searched in the field for geology speciments. Several fossils were named after him. Buried in Mitcham cemetery. He contributed a chapter on the geology of the Morpeth district to Wilson's Handbook to Morpeth and Neighbourhood, 1876.

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Physical description

Photograph; 14.0 cm x 9.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

1908

Photographer

Hammer & Co

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Howchin, Walter, 1845-1937

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Digitisation information

Date

11/07/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,217 x 3,195 pixels (7.1 MP)

Size

7.11 MB

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