natural history artist, was the wife of the naturalist Dr Edmund Charles Hobson whom she married in September 1837. They arrived at Hobart Town in March 1839 on board the Appoline . Margaret Hobson apparently assisted her husband in his natural history studies in Van Diemen’s Land and Victoria; they had moved to Melbourne for the sake of Edmund’s health in 1840. Hobson’s only recorded work is a sketch of the fossil teeth found on Mount Macedon, Victoria, in 1845. Her drawing was lithographed by G.A. Gilbert and printed by Thomas Ham for the second volume of the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science (1846) to illustrate an article by her husband.
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- Date written:
- 1992
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- 2011
