Galbreath, R. 2002. Scholars & gentlemen both : G.M. & Allan Thomson in New Zealand science & education. Wellington, NZ: Royal Society of New Zealand. 336 p.
Abstract
A moving account of the lives of G.M. Thomson and J. Allan Thomson, who helped to shape the way science and education developed in New Zealand in the 20th century. G.M. Thomson, the father, was one of the foremost of New Zealand's 19th century gentleman naturalists, and a man of extraordinary drive. Among all his other activities leading innumerable church, sporting, educational and community groups, his science was always a spare-time passion. His son Allan Thomson won selection as the country's first Rhodes Scholar in 1904. But fate intervened so this biography unfolds the private sorrows as well as the public achievements of the two men.
