Biographical entry Jones, Inigo Owen (1872 - 1954)

Summary

Inigo Owen Jones trained with Clement Wragge 1888-1893 and took up meteorology as a hobby while working on the family farm. In 1923 his long-range forecasting gained attention and he took up full-time forecasting, lecturing and writing from 1927.

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Archival resources

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies

• Inigo Owen Jones - Records, 1930 - 1949, Series 9; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies. Details

Published resources

Books

• Jones, Inigo, My "Nephelo-Coccygia": an Account of the Researches and Reasons Leading to the Establishment of Crohamburst Observatory, Truth & Sportsman Ltd, Brisbane, 195?. Details

Book Sections

• Steele, John, 'Jones, Inigo Owen (1872-1954), Meteorologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, p. 515. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090511b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Jones, Inigo', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-571417. Details

See also

• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P001087. Details