Biographical entry Chauncy, Philip Lamothe Snell (1816 - 1880)

Summary

Philip Lamothe S. Chauncy was Assistant Surveyor in Western Australia from 1841 to 1853> he then moved to Victoria where he worked as a Surveyor at McIvor, Echuca, Dunolly 1860, Castlemaine 1867 and Ballarat. He was a major contributor to R. Brough Smyth's "Aborigines of Victoria" (1878).

Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy - Records, 1839 - 1878, MS 9287; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Chauncy Philip Lamothe Snell', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476952. 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=P001135. Details