[WESTERN DISTRICT; BOTANY] Dr. Daniel Curdie, pioneer colonist and naturalist : original signature on British Association for the Advancement of Science membership form, giving his address as Port Phi

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Manuscript in ink on section cut from printed British Association for the Advancement of Science form, 60 x 182 mm, with original full signature of Daniel Curdie MD , who also gives Port Phillip, New Holland as his usual residence ; in good condition. The following biography of Curdie was published in the Camperdown Chronicle (Vic.), 27 January 1934: Dr. Daniel Curdie was one of the earliest settlers in Western Victoria. He took up Tandarooke, as a pastoral licensee under the New South Wales Government, in October, 1840, five years after the founding of Melbourne, and about 11 years prior to the separation of the Port Phillip district from New South Wales and its erection into an indpendent colony on the 1st July, 1851. The Port Phillip district in 1840 was scantily populated, containing only three towns, viz., Melbourne, Geelong, Portland. Overhauling stock from Sydney began a few years previously, as well as the importation of sheep from Tasmania. Born at Slidderie, Isle of Arran, Scotland, on the 9th of January, 1810, Dr. Curdie was the sixth son of Donald McKirdy and Mary Mackinnon, of Clackbog, Arran Sacrificing his worldly prospects, Daniel Curdie gave up the idea of entering on a clerical career, and his uncle advanced £500 towards his medical course After deciding in favour of medicine, Daniel Curdie went from Glasgow to Edinburgh University, then, as now, celebrated for its medical school, taking his final degrees in 1838. Among his classmates was David Livingstone,

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