Person
Rands, William Henry (1861 - 1914)
- Born
- 8 February 1861
Northampton, United Kingdom - Died
- July 1914
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Geologist
Summary
William Rands, a graduate of the Royal School of Mine, London, joined the Geological Survey of Queensland in 1883 as Assistant Geologist. During his early years with the Survey he was in the Southern District working on gold and mineral deposits. He produced four well-regarded reports on the Gympie goldfields. In 1891 he moved to the Central and Northern Districts. While his superior, Logan Jack, was in London on Survey business from 1898, Rands was Acting Government Geologist, and on Jack's resignation in 1899 was appointed Government Geologist. He left the Survey in 1901, in effect because there was no provision made for his salary, and thereafter worked as a geological consultant.
Details
Chronology
- December 1883 - 1898
- Career position - Assistant (later Senior Assistant) Geologist, Geological Survey of Queensland
- 1898 - 1899
- Career position - Acting Government Geologist, Geological Survey of Queensland
- 1899 - 1901
- Career position - Government Geologist, Geological Survey of Queensland
- 1901
- Life event - Retired
- 1901 - 1914
- Career position - Consultant geologist
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Denmead, A.K., 'The Chiefs of the Geological Survey of Queensland From 1899 to 1955', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, lxviii (10) (1956), 51-60. Details
- Rands, William H., 'Notes on certain boulders met with in the beds and reefs of the Gympie Goldfield, Queensland', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 297-299, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813387. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 12 December 2022