Person

Jutson, John Thomas (1874 - 1959)

Born
1874
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
14 November 1959
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Geologist and Lawyer

Summary

John Jutson, who studied geology part-time while a clerk in a law office, was a geological research scholar, University of Melbourne 1909-1910 and worked for the Geological Survey of Western Australia from 1911 to 1918. He published The Physiography of Western Australia in 1916.

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Chronology

1909 - 1910
Career position - Research Scholar in Geology, University of Melbourne
1911 - 1918
Career event - Researcher with the Geological Survey of Western Australia
1916
Career event - Published Physiography of Western Australia
1919
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus jutsonii Maiden was named in his honour
1920
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Western Australia
1925
Education - LlB, University of Melbourne
1928 - 1952
Career position - Partner in law firm Wilcox and Hall
1937
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1947
Award - Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) University of Western Australia

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Archival resources

Victorian Department of Mines Library

  • John Thomas Jutson - Records, 1909 - 1952; Victorian Department of Mines Library. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Glover, John; with Bevan, Jenny, The Forgotten Explorers: Pioneer geologists of Western Australia, 1826-1926 (Victoria Park, W.A.: Hesperian Press, 2010), 246 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Brock, Erland J.; and Twidale, C. Rowland, 'J. T. Jutson's contributions to geomorphological thought', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 31 (1984), 107-21. Details
  • Jutson, J.T., 'A Summary of the Contribution to the Study of Physiography of Western Australia during the period 1913-20', Report of the fifteenth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 15 (1921), 326-334, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14537504. Details
  • Twidale, C. Rowland and Brock, E. J., 'J. T. Jutson and the Work of the Wind in Shaping the Landscape', Geographical Research, 49 (2011), 47-58. Details
  • Twidale, C. Rowland and Brock, Erland J., 'J. T. Jutson: a Master of Synthesis', Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (1) (2014), 28-42, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14007. Details

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See also

  • 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
  • Hill, Dorothy, 'Edwin Sherbon Hills, 1906-1986', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710079. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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