Person

Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1844 - 1928)

FGS

Born
23 August 1844
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died
22 January 1928
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Geologist

Summary

Henry Brown was a member of the Victorian, Western Australian and New South Wales Geological Surveys 1865-1882 and was Government Geologist in South Australia 1882-1912. He produced a geological map of South Australia 1899.

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Teacher, King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia 1860-62; student, Royal School of Mines, London 1863-64; Geological Survey of Victoria under A.R.C. Selwyn (q.v.) 1865-69; government geologist in Western Australia 1870-72; private mining in Victoria and New Zealand 1872-74; work with Selwyn, Canada 1874-81; work for the New South Wales government 1881-82; government geologist of South Australia 1882-1911; honorary consultant to the Department of Mines in Adelaide until his death.

Chronology

1888 -
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1888<
Career event - Fellow, Geological Society (FGS), London

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Archival resources

Geological Survey of South Australia

  • Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records, 1893 - 1899; Geological Survey of South Australia. Details

South Australian Department of Mines and Energy

  • Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records, 1890 - 1912; South Australian Department of Mines and Energy. Details

State Records of South Australia

  • Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records, 1882 - 1912, GRG 30; State Records of South Australia. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Skeats, E. W., Some Founders of Australian Geology (Sydney: 1934). Details
  • Tietkens, W. H., Journal of the Central Australian Exploring Expedition, 1889, under command of W.H. Tietkens, despatched by the Central Australian Exploring and Prospecting Association, Limited, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1891), 84 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/60481. Details

Book Sections

  • Dunlop, P. R. G., 'Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1844-1928), geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 439-440. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070445b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Brown, H. Y. Lyell, 'The Mesozoic plains of South Australia (South of Lat 26°)', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 241-245, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813331. Details
  • Cooper, B. J., 'Bragg, Mawson and Brown, and the Early Uranium Discoveries in South Australia', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 133 (2009), 199-218 . 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
  • Zylstra, Baige, '"Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 59-74. Details

Resources

See also

  • Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_b.html. Details
  • Cook, Denise; and Witcomb, Andrea, 'The natural history collections of the Perth Museum at the Swan River Mechanics' Institute: origins, role and legacies', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 90-109. Details
  • Crompton, R. W., 'Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-1988', Historical Records of Australian Science, 8 (4) (1991), 249-264. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9910840249.htm. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

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