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.
Details
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))
Related entries
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
- 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
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. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060434b.htm. 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, 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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5082560. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/53312709. Details
- 'Wilkinson, C S (1843-1891)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-575404. Details
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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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 17 October 2024
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