William Wyatt b. 1804

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Medical practitioner who made an album of scientific illustrations after settling in colonial South Australia. Father of William Wyatt.
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drew the scientific illustrations in his Monograph of Certain Crustacia Entomostraca. Order Branchiopoda; Section Lophyropa; and Genera Cyclops, Daphnia, and Lynceus. Illustrated by much-enlarged Microscopic Drawings, subsequently reduced by Photography , Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son (Printers), 1883 (“for private circulation only”, Octavo, 18 pp plus 10 albumen paper photographs, c.150 × 100 mm, mounted on individual leaves). The drawings, photographed for publication by Captain Sweet , were done, Wyatt wrote, 'about fifty years since, when residing and in medical practice at Plymouth, my native place… The cares and labours of life in a colony for nearly fifty years, ad incepto , fully accounts for so long a delay in even this limited publication.” It also explains why all known South Australian drawings are by his son, William Wyatt .

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1999
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References [<ExternalResource: Treloar, Michael, 'Recent Acquisitions List 68', no. 70, presentation copy from the author to the Royal Society of South Australia ($1,500).>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Holden, Robert.>, <ExternalResource: Rendell, Alan (1967), 'Wyatt, William (1804 - 1886)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol 2, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, pp 626-627.>]