Senior Engineer W. La Roche in 1909 in his Northern Steam Ship Co. uniform.
Courtesy of Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-58315, photographer Herman Schmidt.
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Abstract
For much of the 1920s ship’s engineer Willie La Roche (1872 – 1942) obtained specimens of terrestrial, fresh-water and marine molluscs, as well as bulk marine sediment samples, many of which came into the collections of Auckland Museum. This article gives a brief biography of W. La Roche as collector and contributor to Auckland Museum’s marine invertebrate collection and highlights why his contributions were important.
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Blom, Wilma M. (2022). Wille La Roche (1872–1942): Ship's engineer, shell collector and contributor to Auckland Museum's malacology collection. https://doi.org/10.32912/ram.2022.56.1