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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005821b.htm person Walcott Richard Henry AACR2 30 September 1870 9 October 1936 Place of Birth Dunedin, New Zealand Place of Death Caulfield, Victoria, Australia Mineralogist Museum curator Richard Walcott was a mineralogist who as Curator had charge of the mineralogical and geological collections of Melbourne's Industrial and Technological Museum. When this Museum was closed Walcott and some of the collections for which he was responsible were transferred to the National Museum of Victoria. To his responsibilities here were added the ethnographic collections: he worked closely with Baldwin Spencer on the development and display of this material. Accompanying Spencer on some field trips, Walcott provided geological expertise to the analysis of the findings. He worked assiduously behind the scenes for the reopening of the Industrial and Technological Museum. When this happened in 1914 he was appointed as its senior officer. 1891 1891 Education - Diploma, School of Mines, University of Otago 1893 1895 Career position - Mineralogist, Industrial and Technological Museum, Melbourne 1895 1900 Career position - Curator, Industrial and Technological Museum, Melbourne 1900 1914 Career position - Curator of geological, mineral and ethnographic collections, National Museum of Victoria 1900 1916 Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of Victoria 1914 1935 Career position - Curator, Industrial and Technological Museum, Melbourne 1935 1935 Life event - Retired Industrial and Technological Museum, Colony and State of Victoria (1870 - 1945)

Curator 1895 - 1900 and 1914 - 1935

 National Museum of Victoria (1858 - 1983)

Curator of geological, mineral and ethnographic collections 1900 - 1914

 Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - )

Member of Council 1900 - 1916

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 'Walcott, Richard Henry (Henry)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Walcott, Richard Henry (Henry) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Walcott, Richard Henry (1870-1936), mineralogist and museum curator Rasmussen, Carolyn Walcott, Richard Henry (1870-1936), mineralogist and museum curator Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2005 Australian dictionary of biography: supplement 1580 - 1980, with a name index to the Australian dictionary of biography to 1980 Christopher Cunneen 394 Book: A Museum for the people: a History of Museum Victoria and its predecessor institutions, 1854-2000 Rasmussen, Carolyn et al. A Museum for the people: a History of Museum Victoria and its predecessor institutions, 1854-2000 Carlton North, Victoria Scribe Publications 2001