Person
Jukes, Joseph Beete (1811 - 1869)
FRS
- Born
- 10 October 1811
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - Died
- 29 July 1869
Dublin, Ireland - Occupation
- Geologist
- Alternative Names
- Beete Jukes, Joseph (Also known as)
Summary
Joseph Jukes was a geologist and naturalist who visited Australia in the 1840s as a member of the scientific complement on board H.M.S. Fly. His fellow naturalist on board was John MacGillivray. Francis Blackwood, in command of Fly, had orders to survey of a safe passage through the Great Barrier Reef. Much of the Reef was charted, as were parts of the southeast coast of New Guinea. Jukes, an astute observer, published his Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, in 1846: the chapter on the Reef is considered an early classic in Australian geology. His other significant contributions in this field include A sketch of the physical structure of Australia (1850). While in Sydney during the voyage, Jukes made geological forays into the country surrounding Sydney with William Branwhite Clarke, later lending support to Clarke's conclusions as to the age of Australia's coal fields. On returning to the United Kingdom, Jukes was a surveyor with the Geological Survey of Great Britain before holding office for 19 years as director of the Geological Survey of Ireland.
Details
Chronology
- 1836
- Education - BA, University of Cambridge
- 1839 - 1840
- Career position - Geological surveyor, Newfoundland, Canada
- 1842 - 1845
- Career position - Naturalist and geologist on board H.M.S. Fly under the command of Francis Blackwood
- 1846 - 1850
- Career position - Geological surveyor in north Wales and Staffordshire, Geological Survey of Great Britain
- 1850 - 1869
- Career position - Director, Geological Survey of Ireland
- 1853 - 1869
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
Related entries
Colleague
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- William Branwhite Clarke - Records, 1842 - 1876, MS 028; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
Published resources
Books
- Jukes, J. B., Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F. P. Blackwood, R.N., in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842 - 1846, 2 vols (London: T. and W. Boone, 1847). Details
- Jukes, J. B., Letters and extracts from the addresses and occasional writings of J. Beete Jukes, M.A. F.R.S. F.G.S., edited, with connecting memorial notes by his sister [C. A. Browne] (London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), 596 pp. Details
- Jukes, J. Beete, A sketch of the physical structure of Australia: so far as it is at present known (London: T. and W. Boone, 1850), 95 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Mozley, Ann, 'Jukes, Joseph Beete (1811-1869), geologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 2 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 29-30. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020027b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Bayliss, Robert A., 'The travels of Joseph Beete Jukes, F.R.S.', Notes and records of the Royal Society of London, 32 (2) (1978), 201-12. Details
- Birtles, Terry, 'On the Fly: the Great Barrier Experiences of Joseph Beete Jukes', National Library Magazine, 2011 (September) (2011), 12-5. Details
- Day, Allan A., 'J. B. Jukes: a Gentleman, Well-Versed in Geology', Geological Society of Australia, Earth Sciences History Group Newsletter, 16, 17 (1992), 5-8, 5. Details
- Huxley, T. H., 'Joseph Beete Jukes', Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London, 26 (1870), xxxii-xxxiv. Details
- Jukes, J. B., 'A few remarks on the nomenclature and classification of rock formations in new countries', Tasmanian journal of natural science, 2 (1846), 1-12. Details
- Stoddard, D. R., 'Darwin, Jukes and Theory of Reef Development in Australia in the Nineteenth Century', Abstracts of the Geological Society of America, 17 (1985), No 73343. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1706597. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/72177028. Details
- 'Jukes, J Beete (1811-1869)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-499939. Details
Resource Sections
- Andrews, Helen, 'Jukes, Joseph Beete', Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2009. https://www.dib.ie/biography/jukes-joseph-beete-a4373. Details
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