Person

Wilkinson, Charles Smith (1843 - 1891)

FGS FLS

Born
22 August 1843
Potterspury, Northamptonshire, England
Died
26 August 1891
Burwood, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Geologist

Summary

Charles Wilkinson was appointed geological surveyor in charge of the Department of Mines in 1875 in New South Wales. Prior to that he had been involved in the Victorian Geological Survey.

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Chronology

1861 - 1866
Career position - Field assistant to Richard Daintree, Geological Survey office, Melbourne
1866
Career position - Field Geologist, Geological Survey office, Melbourne
1874
Career event - Member, Royal Society of New South Wales
1874 - 1875
Career position - Geological Surveyor, Lands Department of New South Wales
1876
Award - Fellow, Geological Society, London (FGS)
1881
Award - Fellow, Linnean Society, London (FLS)
1886
Career event - Member, Engineering Association of New South Wales
1887 - 1888
Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales
1888
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1901
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus wilkinsoniana R.T.Baker (= Eucalyptus eugenioides Sieber ex Spreng. (1827))

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Book Sections

  • Branagan, D. F., 'Charles Smith Wilkinson, 1843-1891' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Hoare, Michael, 'Wilkinson, Charles Smith (1843-1891), geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 402-403. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilkinson-charles-smith-4854. Details

Journal Articles

  • Adrian, J., 'Charles Smith Wilkinson and the Geological Survey of New South Wales, 1875-1891', Geological Society of Australia, Earth Sciences History Group Newsletter, 15 (1992), 7-10. Details
  • Dunn, E. J.; and Mahony, D. J., 'Biographical Sketch of the Founders of the Geological Survey of Victoria', Bulletins of The Geological Survey of Victoria, 23 (1910), 48. Details
  • Wilkinson, C. S., 'President's address', Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 22 (1889), 1-43. Details
  • Wilkinson, Charles Smith., 'On the Theory of the Formation of Gold Nuggets in Drift', Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 8 (1867), 11-15. Details

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See also

  • Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_w.html. Details
  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

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