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Robert Townson (natural historian)
English natural historian and traveller / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr Robert Townson MD FRSE LLD (1762–1827) was an English natural historian and traveller, known also a mineralogist and medical man. In 1806 he emigrated to New South Wales.[1]
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