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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2025-08-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000627b.htm person Masters George AACR2 July 1837 23 June 1912 Place of Birth Maidstone, Kent, England Place of Death Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia Entomologist George Masters was an entomologist and a prolific collector of natural history specimens of all kinds. In the course of his many collecting expeditions through Australia he developed an unrivalled knowledge of the life histories of Australian animals. By 1860 he was employed as a gardener at Thomas Shepherd's Darling Nursery in Sydney. In the early 1860s he was sent to Queensland by William Macleay to collect insects, an association that lasted for the rest of his life. For ten years from 1864 Masters was Assistant Curator and Collector at the Australian Museum where, despite an undertaking to the contrary, he continued to collect for himself and Macleay as well as the Museum. In 1874 Masters became curator of Macleay's own collection, and remained so after Macleay's death and the transfer of the collections to the University of Sydney. As Macleay's Curator, Masters participated in the 1875 Chevert Expedition to New Guinea led by Macleay. Masters' principal publications were Catalogue of the described diurnal Lepidoptera of Australia (1873), the first book entirely devoted to Australian butterflies, and Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia (1871 - 1874) c. 1856 c. 1856 Life event - Migrated to Australia 1864 1874 Career position - Assistant Curator and Collector, Australian Museum, Sydney 1874 1912 Career position - Curator of the Macleay family collections and the Macleay Museum 1875 1875 Career position - Zoological collector, Chevert Expedition Chevert Expedition (1875)

Zoological collector on the Expedition

 Macleay Museum (1892 - )

Curator of Macleay family collections and the Museum 1874 - 1912

 Australian Museum (1827 - ) 1864 1874?

Assistant Curator and collector, Australian Museum, Sydney

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 Masters, George (18361207-19120623)

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 'Masters, George', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Masters, George Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Musgrave, A. Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Sydney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1932 Journal Article: Zoology of the Chevert - ornithology, part I Masters, G. Zoology of the Chevert - ornithology, part I 1875 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 1 44-64 Journal Article: Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history Turnbull, Paul Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history 2015 Museum & society 13 1 72-87 Journal Article: A detailed report on the birds collected on the Chevert Expedition to New Guinea, in 1875 Fulton, Graham R. A detailed report on the birds collected on the Chevert Expedition to New Guinea, in 1875 2021 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 143 9-36 Book Section: Masters, George (1837-1912), entomologist Whitley, G. P. Masters, George (1837-1912), entomologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1974 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q Douglas Pike 223-224 Journal Article: George Masters, Naturalist Whitley, G. P. George Masters, Naturalist 1971 Australian Zoologist 16 2 25-32 George Masters - Records The Linnean Society of New South Wales George Masters - Records 1874 - 1912 Manuscript notebook containing an account of his relations with Masters by John William Brazier, n.d. (c1874-1912). 1 volume