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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001098b.htm person Howchin Walter AACR2 12 January 1845 27 November 1937 Place of Birth Norwich, Norfolk, England Place of Death Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Geologist Walter Howchin was a Methodist minister whose interest in geology began while serving as minister in parishes in the Tyne Valley, United Kingdom, before coming to Australia in 1881. The geology of South Australia absorbed his attention after arriving in Adelaide. His research resulted in the first subdivision of the Adelaide Geosyncline succession and recognition of late Precambrian glaciation. He taught for over 30 years at the South Australian School of Mines and Industry and the University of Adelaide. Having been made an Honorary Professor at the University in 1918 he retained that title after his retirement in 1920. Howchin published prolifically, among his most important publications being a series of papers of the glacial rocks of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and the books The geology of South Australia (1918) and The stone implements of the Adelaide tribe of Aborigines (1934). The Walter Howchin Medal has been awarded by the South Australia Division of the Geological Society of Australia since 2005. 1864 1864 Career event - Ordained as Methodist Minister 1864 1881 Career position - Minister in Tyne Valley, United Kingdom 1878 1937 Award - Fellow, Geological Society of London 1881 1881 Life event - Migrated to South Australia 1883 1883 Career position - Foundation Member and Vice-Chairman (jointly), Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia 1883 1937 Career position - Member, Royal Society of South Australia 1886 1889 Career position - Editor, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 1886 1901 Career position - Secretary, Adelaide Children's Hospital 1889 1904 Career position - Lecturer, South Australian School of Mines and Industry 1893 1896 Career position - Editor, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (sometimes jointly with Ralph Tate) 1894 1896 Career position - President, Royal Society of South Australia 1901 1933 Career position - Editor, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 1902 1918 Career position - Lecturer in Geology and Palaeontology, University of Adelaide 1907 1907 Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales 1913 1913 Award - Mueller Medal, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1913 1913 Career position - President, Section C (Geology and Mineralogy), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1918 Career position - Honorary Professor, University of Adelaide 1920 1920 Life event - Retired 1921 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Geography), Australian National Research Council 1929 1929 Award - Sir Joseph Verco Medal, Royal Society of South Australia 1934 1934 Award - Lyell Medal, Geological Society of London White, Samuel Albert (1870 - 1954) Sir Joseph Verco Medal, Royal Society of South Australia (1928 - )

Awarded the Medal 1929

 Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (1904 - 2006)

Awarded the Medal by the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1913

 Royal Society of South Australia (1880 - )

President 1894 -1896

 The University of Adelaide (1874 - 2026)

Lecturer in Geology and Palaeontology 1902 - 1918; Honorary Professor 1918 -

 South Australian School of Mines and Industries (1889 - ?)

Lecturer 1898 - 1904

 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (1880 - )

Editor 1886 - 1889, 1893 - 1896 (sometimes jointly), 1901 - 1033

 Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales (1878 - )

Awarded the Medal 1907

 Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia (1883 - 1959)

Foundation Member and Vice-Chairman (jointly) 1883

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Foundation Member (Geography) 1921 -

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

President, Section C (Geology and Mineralogy) 1913

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 'Howchin, Walter', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Howchin, Walter Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Howchin, Walter - Ms 8 Howchin, Walter - Ms 8 Australian Academy of Science 1994 Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings Book Section: Howchin, Walter (1845-1937), geologist and clergyman Ludbrook, N. H. Howchin, Walter (1845-1937), geologist and clergyman Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 377-378 Journal Article: The Heroic Period of Geological Work in Australia. Andrews, E.C. The Heroic Period of Geological Work in Australia. 1942 Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales lxxvi 96-128 Journal Article: Australian glaciations Howchin, W. Australian glaciations 1912 Journal of Geology 20 3 193-227 Book: The geography of South Australia, including the Northern Territory : historical, physical, political and commercial: with an introduction by J.W. Gregory Howchin, Walter The geography of South Australia, including the Northern Territory : historical, physical, political and commercial: with an introduction by J.W. Gregory Christchurch Whitcombe and Tombs 1909 Book: The geology of South Australia Howchin, Walter The geology of South Australia Adelaide Government Printer 1918 Book: The stone implements of the Adelaide tribe of Aborigines, now extinct Howchin, Walter The stone implements of the Adelaide tribe of Aborigines, now extinct Adelaide Gillingham Printers 1934 Journal Article: Growth of Scientific Knowledge [in South Australia]. in Centerary History of South Australia Howchin, W. Growth of Scientific Knowledge [in South Australia]. in Centerary History of South Australia 1936 Royal Geographical Society of Australia 316-350 Journal Article: Presidential address Waterhouse, W. L. Presidential address 1938 Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 72 1-54 Journal Article: Walter Howchin (1845 - 1937) Selby, Jonathan Walter Howchin (1845 - 1937) 1991 Terra nova 3 5 568-70 Journal Article: "Snowball Earth": the Early Contribution from South Australia Cooper, Barry J. "Snowball Earth": the Early Contribution from South Australia 2010 Earth Sciences History 29 121-45 Book Section: Some Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Australian Geological Clerics Branagan, David F. Some Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Australian Geological Clerics London Geological Society of London 2009 Geology and Religion: a History of Harmony and Hostility 171-96 Book Section: Geology Corbett, David W.P.; Cooper, B. J.; Mooney, P. M. Geology Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1986 Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies 29-67 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 Conference Paper: Early Understanding of the Cambrian in South Australia: 1839-1910 Cooper, Barry J.; and Jago, James B. Early Understanding of the Cambrian in South Australia: 1839-1910 Melbourne Earth Sciences History Group, GSA Inc. 2007 The History of Geology in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; the Story in Australia, and in Victoria, from Selwyn and McCoy to Gregory - 1853 to 1903 Pierson, R. R. 20-5 Walter Howchin - Records South Australian Museum Archives Walter Howchin - Records 1933 - 1934 Manuscript of published paper entitled 'A Rejoinder to Some Ethnological Papers 1933' (22 pages); proofs of 'Stone Implements of the Adelaide Tribe Now Extinct' (1934). 2 volumes Walter Howchin - Records Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide Walter Howchin - Records SR 92 H853p 1865 - 1921 Notes of a voyage from London to South Australia on the "Harbinger" 1881 with a list of daily positions and distances travelled, advertisement and passenger regulations; list of negatives of photographs of geological interest taken by Howchin in South Australia; notes relating to the foraminiferal content of fermentations in the north of England 1865-90; bound volume of pamphlets and articles on Aborigines collected by Howchin entitled "Aborigines of Australia" 1888-1921; overall dates 1865-1921. 0.06 m Photographs Walter Howchin - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Walter Howchin - Records MS 008 1885 - 1920 Lecture notebooks used at the University of Adelaide on palaeontology and palaeobotany 1904-20; notes and draft papers on Foraminifera 1885-97; 3 letters to Howchin on geological matters 1893-94, 1905 [1 cm, MS 8]. 0.01 m Royal Society of South Australia - Records State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana Royal Society of South Australia - Records SRG 10 1853 - 1969 Records of the Royal Society of South Australia, comprising minutes, correspondence, membership lists, annual reports, papers presented to the Society, rules, financial papers, photographs, membership list for 1939, papers relating to the Verco estate, notes to assist treasurers, cash book, papers relating to the Howchin estate, petty cash, stamps and letterbook (3 in 1), membership/subscription book and other papers. 3.55 m Douglas Mawson - Records Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide Douglas Mawson - Records MSS 0009 1887 - 1956 Notes, field notes, extracts, draft and typescript papers, reprints and correspondence 1897-1956 of and collected by Mawson relating to research on the sub-division of the Adelaide (Cambrian) system, on glaciation and sturtian tillites, on rock formations of the Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian, on the Proterozoic sequence, on Pre-Ordovician rocks of the McDonnell Ranges and on the geology of the Encounter Bay area; the collection includes the correspondence, notes and articles of W. Howchin on glaciation 1905-37 and cuttings of articles and letters to newspapers by Howchin on religion and geology 1887-1906; overall dates 1887-1956 [85 cm, MSS 0009]. 0.85 m