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Robert Gillies (1835–86)

New Zealand surveyor and politician. Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1884–5. A founder member of the Otago Institute in Dunedin. In 1876, engaged in evolutionary debates that clarified the support of the Otago Institute for Darwinism.

Sources

DNZB s.v. Gillies, Harold Delf

Evening Post (New Zealand), 15 June 1886, p. 3

Royal Society Te Apārangi, ‘History of the Otago Institute for the Arts and Sciences’, https://royalsociety.org.nz/assets/documents/Otago-History-Full.pdf (accessed 8 May 2019)