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Boyd, John Archibald (1846 - 1926)

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Natural history collector
Born: 2 February 1846  Weymouth, Dorset, England.  Died: 29 March 1926.
John Archibald Boyd collected specimens for the Australian Museum and William Macleay. He lived in Fiji 1865-82 and then on a sugar plantation at Ingham, Queensland.

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Born Weymouth, Dorset, England, 2 February 1846. Died 29 March 1926. Arrived Sydney 1857; educated Sydney Grammar School; lived in Fiji 1865-82; sugar plantation, Ingham, Queensland from 1882.
 

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