William Frederick Petterd
(1849–1910) scientist and boot importer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Frederick Petterd was a Tasmanian scientist and boot importer.
He was born in Hobart in 1849, and died in Launceston in 1910.
His first book, A Monograph of the land shells of Tasmania,[1] was the result of a talk to the Royal Society of Tasmania on 12 November 1878.[2]
Petterd described Dundasite in 1893.[3]
He wrote the Catalogue of the minerals of Tasmania, which was published in 1893,[4] and updated the catalogue in 1909, the year before his death.[5]
He was joint author of articles and books with William Harper Twelvetrees.[6][7]
He was a rock and mineral collector, and when he died "His mineral collection, valued at £1212, was placed in charge of the Royal Society of Tasmania on loan for 999 years."[8]