SUTER, HENRY (1841-1918) was born in Zurich, Switzerland, educated there and at Munich, and trained as an analytical chemist. Having managed his father's silk works for some time, he decided to try his fortune in a new country and came to New Zealand with his family in 1887. He later took up bush land near Eketahuna, worked in Christchurch and as manager at Mount Cook, and acted as curator of the Auckland Museum during the absence of Cheeseman. An expert conchologist, he was engaged about 1910 to arrange the shells in the Canterbury and other museums. As a palaeontologist he did much work amongst the New Zealand molluscs of the tertiary period, on which he wrote bulletins for the Geological Survey (1915-21). His great Manual of New Zealand Mollusca (1913) described 1079 species, and marked an extraordinary advance in conchology. He had also many articles in the transactions and journal of the Malacological Society of London. Suter died on 31 Jul 1918.

Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol 51 (p); Suter, op. cit.; The Press, 2 Aug 1918.

Reference: Volume 2, page 178

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