Biographical entry Skeats, Ernest Willington (1875 - 1953)

Summary

Ernest Willington Skeats was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Melbourne 1904-41, and published widely in the field but with emphasis on petrology and stratigraphy. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1910-11.

Details

Portrait of Skeats by Max Meldrum at the University of Melbourne.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Ernest Willington Skeats - Records, 1953, MS 41; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

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

• Ernest Willington Skeats - Records, 1925 - 1950; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies. Details

University of Melbourne Museum of Art

• Ernest Willington Skeats - Records, 1941, 0000.44; University of Melbourne Museum of Art. Details

Published resources

Books

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

Book Sections

• Darragh, Thomas A., 'Skeats, Earnest Willington (1875-1953), Geologist', in Geoffrey Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 621-622. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110635b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Edwards, A. B., 'Obituary: Ernest Willington Skeats', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 15, no. 4, 1953, pp. 127-128. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'Ernest Willington Skeats', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 66, no. 1-2, 1955, pp. 164-65. Details
• Skeats, Ernest W., 'Obituary: Sir Colin Fraser', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 6, no. 6, 1944, p. 176. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Skeats, Ernest Willington', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464505. 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=P001373. Details
• Hill, Dorothy, 'Edwin Sherbon Hills, 1906-1986', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 79-95. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870710079.htm. Details