Identifier: victoriannatura851968luca (find matches)
Title: The Victorian naturalist
Year: 1884 (1880s)

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas  (1853–1936)
Alternative names	A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Description	British botanist and entomologist
Date of birth/death	7 May 1853	10 June 1936
Location of birth/death	Stratford-upon-Avon	Albury
Authority file	: Q2865141 VIAF: 3802231 ISNI: 0000000084178738 LCCN: n81111921 Botanist: A.H.S.Lucas Open Library: OL4506631A WorldCat

Francis George Allman Barnard  (1857–1932)
	Alternative names	Birth name: Francis George Allman Barnard; Barnard; F. G. A. ‎Barnard; Francis Barnard
	Description	Australian-British naturalist, pharmacist, politician, editor and cricketer
	Date of birth/death	1857 / 26 December 1857	1932 / 2 June 1932 / 1 June 1932
	Location of birth/death	Melbourne	Melbourne
	Authority file	: Q3081456 VIAF: 40699264 LCCN: n81089221 NLA: 36356473 WorldCat

Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: (Melbourne) Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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manns Life Preserving Dropswhich were sold around the golddiggings, and no doubt, the Germandid a good trade. He is not remem-bered however for his pills (whichhe claimed would cure tuberculosis,gout, and bruises among other things). He was a partner with Louis Beyers,a fellow German, in a gold mine, andit was from this mine on October 19th,1872, that Beyers dug the nuggetknown now as Holtermanns nugget—a huge nugget, seven feet high, twofeet wide and four inches thick. Holtermann was lucky. He had soldhis share in the mine but managed tobuy it back before the strike becameknown. One story is that it wasbecause of a premonition before thestrike was made. A large piece, weighing over twohundred pounds, broke off the nuggetwhile getting it to the surface, butthat was of little consequence. Theremaining nugget weighed six hundredand thirty pounds, valued at that timeat £12,000. Todays value would besomething like $100,000, thus eclips-ing by far the Welcome Strangerin size and value.*
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Bernard Holtermann, standing alongside thenugget mined from a quartz reef.(Note—This photograph was taken after por-tion of the nugget had broken off.) Picture from the Mitchell Library, Sydney;by courtesy of Miss V. Tongs, Finley, N.S.W. * Comparison of the weight and the price ofgold at the time leads us to conclude that thenugget was, by no means, pure gold, but musthave contained a large amount of quartz. January, 1968 19 Holtermann apparently continuedhis business of medicine, and hisaffluence may be measured by hisappearance when photographed withthe nugget. There is now one remain-ing hotel in Hill End, a town whichonce supported over fifty. There is no story of mateship likethat of Deason and Oates of the Wel-come Stranger. Holtermann alwaysreferred to the nugget as his nugget, and it has become known as such.Beyers, the man who actually dugthe nugget, spent his share or gaveit away and ended his days a poorman. An interesting point to rememberis that while the Welcome Stran

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