George Bennett b. 31 January 1804

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After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He maintained his interest in natural history however and became intimately involved with the Australian Museum, eventually as its Museum Director and Curator.
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References [<ExternalResource: Bennett, George (1854), 'Ornithorhynchus paradoxus or Water Mole', Illustrated Sydney News, 04-01, An abstract from the 1853 Transactions of the Zoological Society.>, <ExternalResource: Chisholm, A.H., 'George Bennett', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: (1851), Sydney Morning Herald, 04-26.>, <ExternalResource: Bennett, George (1834), 'Wanderings in New South Wales ... being the Journal of a Naturalist', London, England, UK.>] [<ExternalResource: Bennett, George (1854), 'Ornithorhynchus paradoxus or Water Mole', Illustrated Sydney News, 04-01, An abstract from the 1853 Transactions of the Zoological Society.>]