Author talk:Charles Hepburn Robson

Marine specimens and Mr Robson

Specimens of rare sea life were donated to the Colonial Museum by "Mr Robson" in 1875. No records found on Te Papa website however.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18750116.2.33
New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4313, 16 January 1875, Page 6 Noracrentiss (talk) 09:14, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

C H Robson gave a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society "On the habits of the frost fish"
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18751005.2.10
Evening Post, Volume XII, Issue 83, 5 October 1875, Page 2

There are many C H Robson entries in Papers Past describing marine and other specimens as the subject of papers and donations to Museums. There was a lighthouse keeper called Charles H Robson at Manakau Heads but it is unclear whether this is C H Robson or C W Robson or simply another "C H Robson"
https://www.angelfire.com/ga3/gretasplace/Resources/LighthouseKeepers.html

"The Chairman then read a paper on a “ New Giant Cuttlefish,' by Mr Robson, the llghthousekeeper at Cape Campbell." https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18860805.2.7

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18740722.2.10 refers to C H Robson at Cape Campbell Lighthouse

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OAM18791229.2.17.3 Charles Hepburn Robson, lighthouse keeper at Moeraki. Lots of articles about lighthouse keeper C H Robson finding unusual fish, and he can be traced moving from one lighthouse to another. Concclusion that this is Charles Hepburn Robson.