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

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

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

Resource Sections

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.

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