James Hector (1834–1907)

Scottish geologist. Surgeon and geologist on the government expedition to the western parts of British North America, 1857–60. Geologist to the provincial government of Otago, New Zealand, 1861–5. Director of the Geological Survey of New Zealand, 1865. Director of the meteorological department of the New Zealand Institute, of the Colonial Museum, and of the botanical garden, Wellington, 1866–1903. Knighted, 1887. FRS 1866.