Person

Jukes, Joseph Beete (1811 - 1869)

FRS

Born
10 October 1811
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Died
29 July 1869
Dublin, Ireland
Occupation
Geologist
Alternative Names
  • Beete Jukes, Joseph (Also known as)

Summary

Joseph Jukes was a geologist and naturalist who visited Australia in the 1840s as a member of the scientific complement on board H.M.S. Fly. His fellow naturalist on board was John MacGillivray. Francis Blackwood, in command of Fly, had orders to survey of a safe passage through the Great Barrier Reef. Much of the Reef was charted, as were parts of the southeast coast of New Guinea. Jukes, an astute observer, published his Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, in 1846: the chapter on the Reef is considered an early classic in Australian geology. His other significant contributions in this field include A sketch of the physical structure of Australia (1850). While in Sydney during the voyage, Jukes made geological forays into the country surrounding Sydney with William Branwhite Clarke, later lending support to Clarke's conclusions as to the age of Australia's coal fields. On returning to the United Kingdom, Jukes was a surveyor with the Geological Survey of Great Britain before holding office for 19 years as director of the Geological Survey of Ireland.

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Chronology

1836
Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Cambridge
1839 - 1840
Career position - Geological surveyor, Newfoundland, Canada
1842 - 1845
Career position - Naturalist and geologist on board H.M.S. Fly under the command of Francis Blackwood
1846 - 1850
Career position - Geological surveyor in north Wales and Staffordshire, Geological Survey of Great Britain
1850 - 1869
Career position - Director, Geological Survey of Ireland
1853 - 1869
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • William Branwhite Clarke - Records, 1842 - 1876, MS 028; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Clarke Family Papers - Records, 1789 - 1879, ML MSS 139; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • Joseph Beete Jukes - Records, 1845, MS Q645; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Jukes, J. B., Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F. P. Blackwood, R.N., in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842 - 1846, 2 vols (London: T. and W. Boone, 1847). Details
  • Jukes, J. B., Letters and extracts from the addresses and occasional writings of J. Beete Jukes, M.A. F.R.S. F.G.S., edited, with connecting memorial notes by his sister [C. A. Browne] (London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), 596 pp. Details
  • Jukes, J. Beete, A sketch of the physical structure of Australia: so far as it is at present known (London: T. and W. Boone, 1850), 95 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Bayliss, Robert A., 'The travels of Joseph Beete Jukes, F.R.S.', Notes and records of the Royal Society of London, 32 (2) (1978), 201-12. Details
  • Birtles, Terry, 'On the Fly: the Great Barrier Experiences of Joseph Beete Jukes', National Library Magazine, 2011 (September) (2011), 12-5. Details
  • Day, Allan A., 'J. B. Jukes: a Gentleman, Well-Versed in Geology', Geological Society of Australia, Earth Sciences History Group Newsletter, 16, 17 (1992), 5-8, 5. Details
  • Huxley, T. H., 'Joseph Beete Jukes', Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London, 26 (1870), xxxii-xxxiv. Details
  • Jukes, J. B., 'A few remarks on the nomenclature and classification of rock formations in new countries', Tasmanian journal of natural science, 2 (1846), 1-12. Details
  • Stoddard, D. R., 'Darwin, Jukes and Theory of Reef Development in Australia in the Nineteenth Century', Abstracts of the Geological Society of America, 17 (1985), No 73343. Details

Resources

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See also

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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