Biographical entry Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824 - 1902)

Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn was Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria 1853-69.

Branagan, D. F.; Townley, K. A., 'Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824-1902), geologist', in Bede Nairn (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 6, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1976, pp. 102-103. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060117b.htm. Details
Zeller, Suzanne, 'Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn,1824-1902', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Details

Pierson, Roger (ed.), 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, Earth Sciences History Group, Geological Society of Australia, Melbourne, 2007, 69 pp. Details

Alcock, F. J., 'A Century in the History of the Geological Survey of Canada', Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 68, 1947. Details
Ami, H. M., 'Memorial or Sketch of the Life of the Late Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn', Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, vol. 10, 1904. Details
Darragh, Thomas A., 'The Geological Survey of Victoria Under Alfred Selwyn, 1852-1868', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 1-25. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870710001.htm. Details
Woodward, H., 'Eminent Living Geologists', Geological Magazine, vol. 6, 1899. Details
Zeller, Susanne and Branagan, David, 'Austrlian-Canadian Links in a Geological Chain: Sir William Logan, Dr Alfred Selwyn and Henry Y. L. Brown', Special edition of Scientia Canadensis, vol. 17, no. 1&2, 1994, pp. 71-102. Details

National Library of Australia, 'Selwyn, Alfred R C', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-525312. Details

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