Biographical entry McCoy, Frederick (1817 - 1899)

Summary

Frederick McCoy was Professor of Natural Sciences, University of Melbourne 1854-1899, Director of the National Museum of Victoria from 1858 and President of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1864.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Adolph Basser Library Pictorial Collection, MS 056; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

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

• Frederick McCoy - Records, 1841 - 1892, A675; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Frederick McCoy - Records, 1865, A100; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Frederick McCoy - Records, A126; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• George Ernest Morrison - Records, 1850 - 1932, ML MSS 312; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Museum Victoria

• Frederick McCoy - Records, 1858 - 1899; Museum Victoria. Details

National Herbarium, Melbourne

• Frederick McCoy - Records, 1857 - 1889, MSS M35; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Frederick McCoy - Records, 1857 - 1869; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Collins, David, Chemistry in Australia Bibliography, eScholarship Research Centre, 2009, http://www.eoas.info/ciab.html. Details

Book Sections

• Fendley, G. C., 'McCoy, Sir Frederick (1817-1899),', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 134-135. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050156b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• 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

Journals

• Field Naturalists' Club Of Victoria (ed.), The Victorian Naturalist: McCoy Special issues, parts 1 and 2, vol. 118, no. 5/6, 2001, 145-332 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Carkeek, Malcolm, 'No Stone Unturned: in Search of Professor Sir Frederick McCoy, FRS', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 69, no. 1, 1998, pp. 24-39. Details
• Jackson, Patrick N. Wyse and Monaghan, Nigel T., 'Frederick McCoy: an Eminent Victorian Paleontologist and His Synopses of Irish Palaeontology of 1844 and 1846', Geology Today, 1994, pp. 231-234. Details
• Wilkinson, Ian R, 'The Battle for the Museum: Frederick McCoy and the Establishment of the National Museum of Victoria at the University of Melbourne', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 1, 1996, pp. 1-11. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9961110001.htm. Details
• Wilkinson, Ian R., 'Frederick McCoy: First Science Professor at the University of Melbourne', History of Education Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 1996, pp. 54-70. Details

Online Resources

• Caught & Coloured: Zoological Illustrations from Colonial Victoria, 2006, http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/caughtandcoloured/. Details
• 'McCoy, Frederick', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-519164. 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=P000589. Details