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William Henry James was an American physician, surgeon, and zoological collector who took part in the 1875 Chevert Expedition—Australia’s first privately funded scientific expedition to a foreign territory (New Guinea). Trained to prepare and preserve zoological specimens, he was later appointed to the Linnean Society of New South Wales.