page_title: George Prideaux Robert Harris
hierarchical_section_title: George Prideaux Robert Harris
caption_attribution_description: An illustration of Thylacinus cynocephalus and Sarcophilus harrisii. Engraving. The annotations on the image name the species as "Didelphis cynocephala" (bottom) and "Didelphis_ursina" (top). The signature at lower left is indistinct.
context_page_description: George Prideaux Robert Harris was the deputy surveyor in the early days of Van Diemen's Land, Australia, from settlement in 1803 until his death in Hobart Town in 1810.
  He was also an explorer, artist and naturalist who described many of the plants and marsupials native to the Island, including the Tasmanian devil and the thylacine.
context_section_description: George Prideaux Robert Harris (1775–1810) was the deputy surveyor in the early days of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia, from settlement in 1803 until his death in Hobart Town in 1810.
  He was also an explorer, artist and naturalist who described many of the plants and marsupials native to the Island, including the Tasmanian devil and the thylacine.
caption: Didelphis ursina (top) and Didelphis cynocephala, engraving after a drawing by Harris.
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