Andrews, Ernest Clayton (1870 - 1948)

Summary

Ernest Andrews was Government Geologist, New South Wales 1920-1931 and published two major works on Australian geology entitled The geology of the Broken Hill District (1922) and Mineral Industry of New South Wales (1928). He also had an interest in the geological distribution of Australian flora and wrote extensively on the subject, including The Geologic History of the Australian Flowering Plants (1916) and Origin of Pacific Insular Floras (1939). He was a close friend of botanist J.H. Maiden who honoured him in 1904 with the naming of Eucalyptus andrewsii.

Details

He was also:
* Chairman, Australian branch, International Oceanographic Committee of the Pacific;
* Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand.

Chronology

1894

Education - Bachelor of Arts in Geology (BA), University of Sydney

1895 - 1898

Career position - Teacher at Bathurst, New South Wales

1898

Career position - Collected coral reef material and data in Fiji and Tonga for the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology

1899 - 1930

Career position - Geologist with the Geological Survey Branch of the New South Wales Department of Mines and Agriculture

1904

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus deanei Maiden. Andrews collected the type.

1904

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus andrewsii Maiden. The type was named after Andrews.

1915

Award - David Syme Research Prize received from the University of Melbourne

1920 - 1930

Career position - Government Geologist in New South Wales

1921 -

Career position - Foundation Councillor (Geology), Australian National Research Council

1921

Career position - President of the Royal Society of New South Wales

1922

Career position - The geology of the Broken Hill District published

1922 - 1942

Career position - Executive Committee Member, Australian National Research Council

1927

Career position - Australian Delegate, 2nd Empire Mining and Metallurgy Congress

1927

Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

1928

Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

1928

Career position - Mineral Industry of New South Wales published

1928 - 1929

Career position - Acting President, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

1928 - 1930

Career position - President, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

1929

Career position - Head of the Australian delegations to the Pacific Science Congresses in 1929, 1933 & 1939

1931

Award - Lyell Medal, Geological Society of London

1937 - 1938

Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales

1942

Award - Clarke Memorial Lecture presented to the Royal Society of New South Wales

1946

Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
• Ernest Clayton Andrews - Records, 1925 - 1944, MS 004; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Andrews, E. C., The geology of the Broken Hill district (Sydney: N.S.W. Department of Mines, 1922), 423 pp. Details
• Andrews, E. C., The mineral industry of New South Wales (Sydney: Government Printer, 1928), 423 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Oldroyd, David R., 'Griffith Taylor, Ernest Andrews et al: Early Ideas on the Development of the River Systems of the Sydney Region, Eastern Australia, and Subsequent Ideas on the Associated Geomorphological Problems' in History of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology, Grapes, R. H., Oldroyd, D. R. and Grigelis, A., eds (London: Geological Society, 2008), pp. 241-77. Details
• Walsh, G. P, 'Andrews, Ernest Clayton (1870-1948), geologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 67-69. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070070b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Ernest Clayton Andrews, 1870-1948', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 77 (1952), 98-103. Details
• A., E. C. [ie Andrews, E. C.], 'Richard Hind Cambage, 1859-1928 (memorial series, no. 4)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 59 (1934), 435-447. Details
• Andrews, E.C., 'Obituary: Sir Hubert Murray', Australian Journal of Science, 2 (5) (1940), 137-138. Details
• Andrews, E.C., 'The Heroic Period of Geological Work in Australia.', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, lxxvi (1942), 96-128. Details
• Cotton, Leo A., 'Obituary: Ernest Clayton Andrews', Australian Journal of Science, 11 (2) (1948), 48-49. Details
• W. R. B. [i.e. Browne, W. R.] and A. B. W. [i.e. Walkom, A. B.], 'Ernest Clayton Andrews 1870 - 1948 (Memorial series, no. 13.)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 77 (1952), 98-103. Details
• Walkom, A. B., 'Memorial to Ernest Clayton Andrews', Proceedings Volume of the Geological Society of America Annual Report for 1948 (1949), 117-126. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5392911. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/67335059. Details
• 'Andrews, E C (1870-1948)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-628771. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Andrews, Ernest Clayton - Ms 4', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms004.html. Details

See also

• Johns, R.K. ed., History and role of government geological surveys in Australia (Adelaide: South Australian Government Printer, 1976), 111 pp. Details