Biographical entry Vallance, Thomas George

Summary

Thomas George Vallance was a lecturer in petrology at the University of Sydney and in 1965 was appointed associate professor. Early in his career he became interested in the history of petrology but this expanded to cover just about the whole range of the history of earth science.

Published resources

Books

• Vallance, T. G., Moore, D.T. and Groves, E. W., Nature's Investigator: the Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2001, 666 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Branagan, D. F.; Vallance, T. G., 'Keene, William (1798-1872), geologist', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 5-6. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050007b.htm. Details
• Branagan, D. F.; Vallance, T. G., 'Stutchbury, Samuel (1798-1859), geologist and biologist', in Bede Nairn (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 6, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1976, pp. 216-217. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060233b.htm. Details
• Branagan, D. F.; Vallance, T. G., 'Dun, William Sutherland (1868-1934)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981, p. 364. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080388b.htm. Details
• Branagan, David; Vallance, Thomas, 'The Earth Sciences: Searching for Geological Order', in Roy MacLeod (ed.), The Commonwealth of Science: ANZAAS and the Scientific Enterprise in Australasia, 1888-1988, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 130-146. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Carne, Joseph Edmund (1855-1922), geologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 565-566. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070573b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'The Fuss About Coal: Troubled Relations between Palaeonbotany an Geology', in D. J. Carr and S. G. M. Carr (eds), Plants and Man in Australia, Academic Press, Sydney, 1981. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Early German Connections with Natural History, Geology and Mining in New South Wales and Queensland', in Johannes H. Voigt (ed.), New Beginnings: The Germans in New South Wales and Queensland: A Commemorative Volume, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart, 1983, pp. 269-278. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Laseron, Charles Francis (1887-1959), Naturalist and Connoisseur', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 675-676. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090677b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Maitland, Andres Gibb (1864-1951), Geologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 386-387. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100379b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Osborne, George Davenport (1899-1955), Geologist', in Geoffrey Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 101-102. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110112b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Pittman, Edward Fisher (1849-1932), Geologist and Administrator', in Geoffrey Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 241-242. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110247b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Wade, Arthur (1878-1951), Geologist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 338-339. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120378b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Browne, William Rowan (1884-1975), Geologist and Teacher', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 13, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 280-282. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130317b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T. G.; Branagan, D. F., 'Murray, Reginald Augustus Frederick (1846-1925), geologist', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 321-322. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050367b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T. G.; Branagan, D. F., 'David, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth (1858-1934), Geologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981, pp. 218-221. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080242b.htm. Details
• Vallance, T.G., 'Edwards, Austin Burton (1909-1960), Geologist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 81-82. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140093b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Barkas, J. P.; Aitchison, J. C., 'The Great Serpentine Belt of New South Wales: Evolution of Ideas from Benson through Vallance to the Present', in D. F. Branagan and G. H. McNally (eds), Useful and Curious Geological Enquiries Beyond the World: Pacific-Asia Historical Themes: The 19^th International INHIGEO Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 4-8 July, 1994, International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, Sydney, 1994, pp. 241-247. Details
• Branagan, David, 'Thomas George Vallance, 1928-1993', in D. F. Branagan and G. H. McNally (eds), Useful and Curious Geological Enquiries beyond the World: Pacific-Asia Historical Themes: The 19^th International INHIGEO Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 4-8 July, 1994, International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, Sydney, 1994, pp. ix-xxi. Details

Journal Articles

• Vallance, T. G., 'History of Science in Australia. Pt. 4: the early years of settlement', Scan, vol. 1, no. 4, 1968, pp. 11-15. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'History of Science in Australia. Pt. 7. Beginning of the geological system', Scan, vol. 1, no. 7/8, 1968, pp. 28-34. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Start of Government Science in Australia: A. W. H. Humphrey, His Majesty's Mineralogist in New South Wales, 1802-12', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 105, no. 2, 1981, pp. 107-146. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Achievement in Isolation: A. W. Howitt, Pioneering Investigator of Metamorphism in Australia', Earth Sciences History, vol. 5, no. 1, 1986, pp. 39-49. Details
• Vallance, T. G., 'Sydney Earth and After: Mineralogy of Colonial Australia, 1788-1900', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 108, 1986, pp. 149-181. Details
• Vallance, T. G. and Moore, D. T., 'Geological Aspects of the Voyage of H.M.S. Investigator in Australian Waters, 1801-5', Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), vol. 10, no. 1, 1982, pp. 1-43. Details
• Vallance, T.G., 'Origins of Australian Geology', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 100, 1975, pp. 13-43. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Vallance, Thomas George', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474008. Details