George Thomson (naturalist)

George Malcolm Thomson (2 October 1848 – 25 August 1933) was a New Zealand scientist, educationalist, social worker and politician.

At the age of 20, he emigrated to New Zealand, and, apart from a short period farming at Mabel Bush, Southland, spent the rest of his life in Dunedin.

[2] Thomson's scientific interests were wide, including fisheries, crustaceans and the naturalisation of species.

[5] Thomson was President of the Royal Society of New Zealand between 1907 and 1909; preceded by James Hector and followed by Augustus Hamilton.

[6] His son, James Allan Thomson, was New Zealand's first Rhodes Scholar and later Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington.