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Sir John William Dawson (1820-1899)
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print: Sir John William Dawson (1820-1899), c. 1880. Tinted lithograph on wove paper. John Clarence Webster Canadiana Collection (W465). Sir William Dawson is known as the first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation. He included much of the geology of southern New Brunswick in the second edition of Acadian Geology in 1868.
