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Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell (11 March 1820 – 7 September 1895) was a 19th-century New Zealand naturalist, politician, and land purchase commissioner. He was a founder and first secretary of the New Zealand Institute, and a collector of moa remains.
8 de nov. de 2017 · Walter Baldock Durant Mantell (1820–1895) arrived in New Zealand in 1840. From 1845 until 1848 he was Superintendent of Military Roads at Porirua, and learned to speak Māori. In 1848 he became a government land purchase agent in the South Island.
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell è stato uno scienziato e politico neozelandese. Fu uno dei membri fondatori del New Zealand Institute, del quale fu anche il primo segretario, ed è noto per aver scoperto e raccolto molti resti di moa.
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell (11 March 1820 – 7 September 1895) was a 19th century New Zealand scientist, politician, and Land Purchase Commissioner. He was a founder and first secretary of the New Zealand Institute, and discovered and collected Moa remains.
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell (11 March 1820 – 7 September 1895) was a 19th-century New Zealand naturalist, politician, and land purchase commissioner. He was a founder and first secretary of the New Zealand Institute, and a collector of moa remains.
Naturalist and politician Walter Mantell spent much of his career trying seek to justice for South Island tribe Ngāi Tahu after the government failed to keep promises made during land deals with the tribe in the 1840s and 1850s.
Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil ...
