Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880 - 1963)

Summary

Thomas Taylor was senior geologist to the British Antarctic expedition 1910-1913 under R.F. Scott. He was Associate Professor of Geography, University of Sydney 1920-1928, and then professor at the Universities of Chicago 1928-1935 and Toronto 1935-1951. In 1913 he and E.T. Quayle wrote the first text-book on Australian meteorology "Climate and Weather of Australia".

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Chronology

1907

Award - 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship

1910 - 1913

Career position - Senior Geologist, R. F. Scott British Antarctic Expedition

1913

Career event - Book published Climate and Weather of Australia co-authored with E.T. Quayle, and H.A. Hunt

1918

Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne

1919 -

Career position - Foundation Councillor (Meteorology), Australian National Research Council

1920 - 1928

Career position - Associate Professor of Geography, University of Sydney

1923

Career position - President, Section E (Geography and History), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1928 - 1935

Career position - Professor of Geography, University of Chicago, United States of America

1935 - 1951

Career position - Professor of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada

1954 - 1963

Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Thomas Griffith Taylor - Records, 1960, MS 041; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

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

• Thomas Griffith Taylor - Records, 1903 - 1933, Uncatalogued MSS set 460; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Thomas Griffith Taylor - Records, 1880 - 1963, MS 1003; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

• Thomas Griffith Taylor - Records, 1899 - 1916, Acc 979; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Sanderson, Marie, Griffith Taylor: Antarctic Scientist and Pioneer Geographer (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988), 229 pp. Details
• Strange, Carolyn and Bashford, Alison, Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2008), 200 pp. Details
• Taylor, Griffith, Australian meteorology: a text-book including sections on aviation and climatology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920), 312 pp. Details
• Taylor, T. G., Journeyman Taylor. The Education of a Scientist (London: Hale, 1958). Details
• Taylor, T. Griffith, Douglas Mawson (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1962). Details

Book Sections

• Oldroyd, David R., 'Griffith Taylor, Ernest Andrews et al: Early Ideas on the Development of the River Systems of the Sydney Region, Eastern Australia, and Subsequent Ideas on the Associated Geomorphological Problems' in History of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology, Grapes, R. H., Oldroyd, D. R. and Grigelis, A., eds (London: Geological Society, 2008), pp. 241-77. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880-1963), geographer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 185-188. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120206b.htm. Details
• Powell, J.M., 'Thomas Griffith Taylor, 1880-1963' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details

Conference Papers

• Oldroyd, D. R., 'Griffith Taylor and his Views on Race, Environment and Settlement and the Peopling of Australia', in Useful and Curious Geological Enquiries Beyond the World: Pacific-Asia Historical Themes: The 19th International INHIGEO Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 4-8 July, 1994 edited by D. F. Branagan and G. H. McNally (Sydney: International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, 1994), pp. 251-274.. Details

Edited Books

• Andrews, John ed., Frontiers and men: a volume in memory of Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1966), 186 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Griffith Taylor 1880-1963', Australian Geographical Studies, II (1) (1964), 1-9. Details
• Bourke, Helen, 'Intellectuals for Export: Australia in the 1920's', Australian Cultural History, 3 (1984), 59-93. Details
• Hanley, W. S., 'Griffith Taylor's Antarctic Achievements: a Geographical Foundation', Australian Geographical Studies, 18 (1) (1980), 22-36. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'The Bowman, Huntington and Taylor Correspondence, 1928', Australian Geographer, 14 (1978), 123-125. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'Thomas Griffith Taylor, 1888-1963', Geographers: Bibliographical Studies, 3 (1979), 141-153. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'The Cyclist on the Ice: Griffith Taylor as Explorer', Royal Geographical Society of Australia (SA Branch), Proceedings (1979), 1-28. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'Griffith Taylor and 'Australia Unlimited'', Habitat, 8 (1980), 6-8. Details
• Powell, J. M., 'National Identity and the Gifted Immigrant: a Note on T. Griffith Taylor, 1880-1963', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2 (1981), 43-54. Details
• Powell, J. M., '1928: Griffith Taylor Emigrates from Australia', Geography Bulletin, 10 (1987), 5-13. Details
• Quilty, Patrick G., 'Laying the Foundation: Early Australian Earth Scientists in the Antarctic: Part 2 - Geologists with Scott's 1911-1912 Final Expedition', TAG: Geological Society of Australia Newsletter, 161 (2011), 21-6. Details
• Strange, Carolyn, 'The Personality of Environmental Prediction: Griffith Taylor as "Latter-Day" Prophet', Historical Records of Australian Science, 21 (2) (2010), 133-48, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR09026. Details
• Warner, R. F., 'An intimate history of leadership: Sydney University's Department of Geography, 1921 - 1997', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 144 (2022), 255-70, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/LIN/article/view/17116. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/64306461. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2569366. Details
• 'Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880-1963)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1265174. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_t.html. Details
• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_t.html. Details
• Cooper, Barry J.; and Jago, James B., 'Early Understanding of the Cambrian in South Australia: 1839-1910', in The History of Geology in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; the Story in Australia, and in Victoria, from Selwyn and McCoy to Gregory - 1853 to 1903 edited by Pierson, R. R. (Melbourne: Earth Sciences History Group, GSA Inc., 2007), pp. 20-5.. Details
• Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro. pages 38. Details