Ernest Dieffenbach was the first trained scientist to live and work in New Zealand. Employed as a naturalist by the New Zealand Company from 1839 to 1841, he reported on the flora, fauna, landscape and ethnology in his 1843 book Travels in New Zealand, and was the first person to use the term greywacke for rocks in New Zealand.

Learn more at the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
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