James Hector - Tributes

Tributes

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June, 1866.

A number of things have been named after Hector, including:

  • The Hector Memorial Medal
  • The library at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa was called the Hector Library for a time. It is now called Te Aka Matua Library & Information Centre. It consists of the merged collections of the Dominion Museum, the National Art Gallery; the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. A portrait of Hector hangs just inside the door.
  • Mount Hector located in the southern Tararua Range.
  • Mount Hector located in Banff National Park.

A number of species and subspecies have been named after Hector, including:

  • The Buff Weka, Gallirallus australis hectori
  • Hector's Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon hectori
  • Hector's Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus hectori
  • a New Zealand land snail, Huonodon hectori
  • a New Zealand lamp shell, Pachymagas hectori

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