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'Andrew Goldie (1840-1891), naturalist and merchant, was born on 24 May 1840 at Kelburne, Ayrshire, Scotland, son of David Goldie and his wife Agness. After a sketchy education and apprenticeship to his father's trade of gardener he migrated in 1862 to Auckland where for some ten years he was a nurseryman. Back in Britain in 1874 he arranged to collect plants in the South Sea Islands for a London nurseryman but next year in Melbourne he was encouraged by Dr Ferdinand von Mueller to go to New Guinea. He arrived at Port Moresby in the mission steamer Ellengowan on 28 March 1876 but after some local exploration and two bad attacks of fever left in December for Sydney.' (Source: Australian Dictionaly of Biography)