Biographical entry Steel, Thomas (1858 - 1925)

Summary

Thomas Steel worked as laboratory chemist for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. from 1882. From 1892 he was a chemist at the company's head office in Sydney until he retired in 1918. A keen naturalist from boyhood, he edited the "Australian Naturalist" 1911-25.

Archival resources

Australian Museum

• Thomas Steel - Records, 1889 - 1926, Series 9; Australian Museum. Details

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

• Baldwin Spencer - Records, 1880 - 1929, ML MSS 29; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

• Thomas Steel - Records, 1882 - 1918; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Holland, H. G.; Simons, J. R., 'Steel, Thomas (1858-1925), Industrial Chemist and Naturalist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, p. 59. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120073b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Steel, Thomas, 'On "Red Rain" Dust', Report of the Seventh Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. 7, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Sydney, 1898, pp. 334-335. Details

Online Resources

• Early Chemists of Sydney, 2006, http://members.optusnet.com.au/jph8524/McKern.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Steel, Thomas', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467847. Details