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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002725b.htm person Watt John Alexander AACR2 1868 31 July 1958 Place of Birth Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia Geologist Mineralogist Medical practitioner John Watt was the first science graduate from the University of Sydney to work professionally as a geologist. He worked as an assayer for a mining company in central New South Wales before being appointed in 1894 to the Horn Scientific Exploring Expedition to Central Australia under the leadership of Charles Winnecke. His reports of the geological work of the Expedition were published in the official 4-volume Report edited by Baldwin Spencer. Following the Expedition, Watt spent a year in the United Kingdom on a Science Research Scholarship awarded by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Between 1897 and 1899 he was a geologist with the Geological Survey of New South Wales, producing a number of papers in the publications of the State's Department of Mines. Watt then changed careers and qualified as a physician and surgeon. From 1907 to 1939 he was in private medical practice in Tenterfield, New South Wales. 1890 1890 Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Sydney 1890 1892 Career position - Assayer and assistant metallurgist, Lewis Ponds Gold and Silver Mining Company 1894 1894 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney May 1894 August 1894 Career position - Geologist and mineralogist, Horn Scientific Exporing Expedition 1895 1895 Award - 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship 1897 1899 Career position - Geologist, Geological Survey of New South Wales 1906 1906 Education - Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London 1906 1906 Education - Member, Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS) 1907 1939 Career position - In general medical practice, Tenterfield, New South Wales Horn Scientific Exploring Expedition (1894)

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 'Watt, John Alexander', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Watt, John Alexander Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Report: Report of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry: covering the period from the date of the appointment of the Executive Committee (14th April, 1916) to the 30th June 1917 Advisory Council of Science and Industry Report of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry: covering the period from the date of the appointment of the Executive Committee (14th April, 1916) to the 30th June 1917 Melbourne Commonwealth Government Printer 1917 Resource: Early Chemists of Sydney McKern, H. H. G. Early Chemists of Sydney 2006 Journal Article: Further remarks of the on the saddle reefs of the Hargraves Goldfield Watt, J. A. Further remarks of the on the saddle reefs of the Hargraves Goldfield 1899 Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales 6 83-107 Journal Article: Report on Winter's Reef, near Condobolin Watt, J. A. Report on Winter's Reef, near Condobolin 1898 Annual report Department of Mines New South Wales 184-6 Edited Book: Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia Spencer, Baldwin Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia London: Melbourne Dulau and Co.: Melville, Mullen and Slade 1896 Book Section: John Alexander Watt: geologist on the Horn Expedition Branagan, D. F. John Alexander Watt: geologist on the Horn Expedition Chipping Norton, N.S.W. Surrey Beatty & Sons 1996 Exploring Central Australia: society, the environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition Morton, S. R. and Mulvaney, D. J. 42-58