Person
Andrews, Ernest Clayton (1870 - 1948)
- Born
- 18 October 1870
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 1 July 1948
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Botanical collector and Geologist
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, 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, 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
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 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
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Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
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, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 67-69. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070070b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 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., 'Carl Adolph Sussmilch, 1875-1946 (Memorial series, no. 12)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 73 (3/4) (1948), 242-248. 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
- E. C. A. [ie Ernest C. Andrews], 'Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, 1852-1941 (Memorial series, no. 10)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 69 (3/4) (1944), 176-184. 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
- W. R. B. and A. B. W. [ie William R. Browne and Arthur B. Walkom], 'Ernest Clayton Andrews, 1870-1948 (Memorial series, no. 13)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 77 (3/4) (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
McCarthy, G.J.; Walsh, N.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 24 January 2024
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