Person

Edelfelt, Erik Gustav (? - 1895)

Born
Sweden
Died
1 February 1895
Occupation
Dentist

Summary

Erik Edelfelt had a dental practise in Rockhampton during the mid 1890s and then in Freestone Creek on the Darling Downs. Prior to this he collected natural history specimens in New Guinea (1884), was manager of Burns Philp Trading Station Motu Motu 1886-1888, was a government agent in Samarai in c.1888 and went to Sweden in 1894.

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