Biographical entry Jevons, William Stanley (1835 - 1882)

Summary

William Stanley Jevons was assayer at the new Sydney Mint 1854-59 then returned to England. While in Australia he made systematic observations in meteorology, botany, geology, and of social phenomena, and in 1857 became interested in the new art of wet-plate photography.

Archival resources

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

• William Stanley Jevons - Records, 1855 - 1857, B1610; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• William Stanley Jevons - Records, 1854 - 1856, ML MSS 1155; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• La Nauze, J. A., 'Jevons, William Stanley (1835-1882)', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 4, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1972, pp. 480-481. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040542b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Davison, Graeme, 'The Unsociable Sociologist: W.S. Jevons and his Survey of Sydney, 1856-8', Australian Cultural History, vol. 16, 1997-1998, pp. 127-150. Details
• Nicholls, Neville, 'William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia', Australian Meteorological Magazine, vol. 47, December 1998, 1998, pp. 285-293. Details
• Russell, H.C., 'Astronomical and Meteorological Workers in New South Wales, 1778-1860', Australasian Association for Advancement of Science, vol. 1, 1888, pp. 45-94. Details

Online Resources

• Maas, Harro, 'William Stanley Jevons, 1835-82', in The Thoemmes Encyclopedia of the History of Ideas, Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, http://www.thoemmes.com/404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/jevons.htm. Details
• Early Chemists of Sydney, 2006, http://members.optusnet.com.au/jph8524/McKern.htm. Details
• 'Jevons, William Stanley', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-880689. Details
• Nicholls, Neville, 'William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia', 2000, http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/pubs/1998/AMM47.htm. Details

See also

• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000062. Details
• Martin, Megan, 'Mr Miller of the Mint: 'rather a clever, agreeable man'', Insites, Winter, 2003, pp. 4-5. Details