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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes updated 2026-03-26 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000268b.htm person Brown Henry Yorke Lyell FGS AACR2 23 August 1844 22 January 1928 Place of Birth Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada Place of Death Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Geologist Henry Brown was a member of the Victorian, Western Australian and New South Wales Geological Surveys 1865-1882 and was Government Geologist in South Australia 1882-1912. He produced a geological map of South Australia 1899.

Teacher, King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia 1860-62; student, Royal School of Mines, London 1863-64; Geological Survey of Victoria under A.R.C. Selwyn (q.v.) 1865-69; government geologist in Western Australia 1870-72; private mining in Victoria and New Zealand 1872-74; work with Selwyn, Canada 1874-81; work for the New South Wales government 1881-82; government geologist of South Australia 1882-1911; honorary consultant to the Department of Mines in Adelaide until his death.

1888 Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1888 1888 Career event - Fellow, Geological Society (FGS), London Geological Survey of Victoria (1852 - )

Geologist, 1865-1882

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

Original [founding] member 1888 -

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 'Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Some Founders of Australian Geology Skeats, E. W. Some Founders of Australian Geology Sydney 1934 Book Section: Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1844-1928), geologist Dunlop, P. R. G. Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1844-1928), geologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 439-440 Journal Article: The Mesozoic plains of South Australia (South of Lat 26°) Brown, H. Y. Lyell The Mesozoic plains of South Australia (South of Lat 26°) Sydney Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1889 Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1 241-245 Book: Journal of the Central Australian Exploring Expedition, 1889, under command of W.H. Tietkens, despatched by the Central Australian Exploring and Prospecting Association, Limited, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch Tietkens, W. H. Journal of the Central Australian Exploring Expedition, 1889, under command of W.H. Tietkens, despatched by the Central Australian Exploring and Prospecting Association, Limited, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch Adelaide Government Printer 1891 Journal Article: Biographical Sketch of the Founders of the Geological Survey of Victoria Dunn, E. J.; and Mahony, D. J. Biographical Sketch of the Founders of the Geological Survey of Victoria Melbourne J. Kemp 1910 Bulletins of The Geological Survey of Victoria 23 48 Journal Article: "Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890 Zylstra, Baige "Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890 2020 Studies in Western Australian history 35 59-74 Resource: Australian geology hall of fame Geological Society of Australia Australian geology hall of fame Earth Sciences History Group, Geological Society of Australia 2022 ESHG Biographies Journal Article: Bragg, Mawson and Brown, and the Early Uranium Discoveries in South Australia Cooper, B. J. Bragg, Mawson and Brown, and the Early Uranium Discoveries in South Australia 2009 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 133 199-218 Journal Article: The natural history collections of the Perth Museum at the Swan River Mechanics' Institute: origins, role and legacies Cook, Denise; and Witcomb, Andrea The natural history collections of the Perth Museum at the Swan River Mechanics' Institute: origins, role and legacies 2020 Studies in Western Australian history 35 90-109 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 Journal Article: Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-1988 Crompton, R. W. Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-1988 1991 Historical Records of Australian Science 8 4 249-264 Resource: Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001 Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records State Records of South Australia Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records GRG 30 1882 - 1912 Original letters relating to geological matters, 1882-1912, in the Department of Mines report books 1-4 [GDG 30]. Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records Geological Survey of South Australia Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records 1893 - 1899 Letters from scientific colleagues 1893-99, including G.J. Hinde, H. Woodward, E.F. Miller, G.W. Goyder, C.B. Longbottom, S. Davenport, C. Todd and T.H. Backhouse, relating to palaeontological material from the Northern Territory; correspondence with R. Tate, University of Adelaide, regarding the Leigh Creek coal measures 1894, and the Port Keats bore, Northern Territory. Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records South Australian Department of Mines and Energy Henry Yorke Lyell Brown - Records 1890 - 1912 Letters to Robert Etheridge junior relating to palaeontological material, 1890-1908 [in the Biostratigraphy Branch archives].