Biographical entry Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1844 - 1928)

Summary

Henry Yorke Lyell Brown was a member of the Victorian, Western Australian and New South Wales Geological Surveys 1865-82 and was Government Geologist in South Australia 1882-1912.

Details

Born Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, 23 August 1844. Died Adelaide, 22 January 1928. Teacher, King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia 1860-62; student, Royal School of Mines, London 1863-64; Geological Survey of Victoria under A.R.C. Selwyn (q.v.) 1865-69; government geologist in Western Australia 1870-72; private mining in Victoria and New Zealand 1872-74; work with Selwyn, Canada 1874-81; work for the New South Wales government 1881-82; government geologist of South Australia 1882-1911; honorary consultant to the Department of Mines in Adelaide until his death. Produced a geological map of South Australia 1899.

Archival resources

Geological Survey of South Australia

• Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records, 1893 - 1899; Geological Survey of South Australia. Details

South Australian Department of Mines and Energy

• Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records, 1890 - 1912; South Australian Department of Mines and Energy. Details

State Records of South Australia

• Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records, 1882 - 1912, GRG 30; State Records of South Australia. Details

Published resources

Books

• Skeats, E. W., Some Founders of Australian Geology, Sydney, 1934. Details

Book Sections

• Dunlop, P. R. G., 'Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1844-1928), geologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 439-440. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070445b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Brown, H Y L', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-624618. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000268. Details
• Crompton, R. W., 'Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-198', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 8, no. 4, 1991, pp. 249-264. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9910840249.htm. Details