Wandering muddy streets of history

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Peter Thomson dressed in his walking attire; a plant press under his arm, a vasculum for delicate specimens across his back and a sturdy stick at hand to deal with thistles. Photo: Noeline Cottam, from Stewart sisters album In the years immediately following the Otago gold rush, readers of the Otago Daily Times and Otago Witness were treated to a series of lively accounts of "rambles" around Dunedin and its hinterland by Peter Thomson (1823-79), an Otago Daily Times proofreader and pioneering naturalist.