Person
Pearson, Alfred Naylor (1856 - 1933)
- Born
- 17 May 1856
Halton, Yorkshire, England - Died
- 5 August 1933
Brighton, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist and Agriculturalist
Summary
Alfred Pearson was educated at the Royal School of Mines in London. He held a variety of professional positions in India including Professor of Biology at the University of Kutch; Curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Kutch, 1878) and shortly afterwards became resident engineer of an Indian mining company. In 1885 Pearson migrated to Australia where he worked as a chemist for government departments and was particularly active in experimental agriculture. He wrote "Manures and Manuring" in 1895 and many popular articles for newspapers. He set up a demonstration farm, Holton Grange, in 1907 but it was unsuccessful.
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Chronology
- 1877 - 1878
- Career position - Worked on developing the mineral resources of Kutch, India
- 1878 - c. 1883
- Career position - Professor of Biology at the University of Kutch and Curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kutch
- 1883 - c. 1885
- Career position - Temporary Head of the meteorological department in West India
- 1885
- Career position - University Examiner in Melbourne
- 1886 - 1902
- Career position - Chemist for government departments
- 1888
- Career position - Member of the royal commission on the introduction of contagious diseases amongst rabbits
- 1889
- Career position - Search for Knowledge and Other Papers published
- 1890
- Career position - Member of the Intercolonial Rust in Wheat Conference
- 1895 - 1896
- Career position - Gave evidence to the inquiry into the butter industry in Victoria
- 1902 - 1907
- Career position - Head of the Department of Agriculture in Natal, South Africa
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details
Book Sections
- Jewell, W. R., 'Pearson, Alfred Naylor (1856-1933), Chemist and Agriculturist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Geoffrey Serle, ed., vol. 11 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 186-187. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110189b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Pearson, A.N., 'Analyses of Soils', The Australasian Journal of Pharmacy, 2 (1887), 394-395. Details
- Pearson, A.N., 'Science and Farming.', The Journal of the National Agricultural Society of Victoria (March issue (1889), 11-12, No. 45, pp. 11-12. Details
- Pearson, A.N., 'A.N. Pearson', The Scientific Australian : a popular quarterly journal devoted to the arts and industries, 2 (1897), 37. Details
- Pearson, A.N., 'Notes on Some Simple Laboratory Contrivances', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 339, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378305. Details
- Pearson, A.N., 'Note on the Correspondence Between the Results of the Chemical Analysis of a Soil and its Productiveness ', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 947-952, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378953. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535425. Details
- 'Pearson, A N (1856-1933)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-639006. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018