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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-12-12 human Helen Cohn updated 2024-01-11 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007141b.htm person Rands William Henry AACR2 8 February 1861 July 1914 Place of Birth Northampton, United Kingdom Place of Death Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Geologist William Rands, a graduate of the Royal School of Mine, London, joined the Geological Survey of Queensland in 1883 as Assistant Geologist. During his early years with the Survey he was in the Southern District working on gold and mineral deposits. He produced four well-regarded reports on the Gympie goldfields. In 1891 he moved to the Central and Northern Districts. While his superior, Logan Jack, was in London on Survey business from 1898, Rands was Acting Government Geologist, and on Jack's resignation in 1899 was appointed Government Geologist. He left the Survey in 1901, in effect because there was no provision made for his salary, and thereafter worked as a geological consultant. December 1883 1898 Career position - Assistant (later Senior Assistant) Geologist, Geological Survey of Queensland 1898 1899 Career position - Acting Government Geologist, Geological Survey of Queensland 1899 1901 Career position - Government Geologist, Geological Survey of Queensland 1901 1901 Life event - Retired 1901 1914 Career position - Consultant geologist Queensland Mines Department (II), Colony and State of Queensland (1890 - 1989)

Government Geologist, Geological Survey of Queensland 1899 - 1901

 'Rands, William Henry', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Rands, William Henry Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Notes on certain boulders met with in the beds and reefs of the Gympie Goldfield, Queensland Rands, William H. Notes on certain boulders met with in the beds and reefs of the Gympie Goldfield, Queensland Sydney Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1889 Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1 297-299 Journal Article: The Chiefs of the Geological Survey of Queensland From 1899 to 1955 Denmead, A.K. The Chiefs of the Geological Survey of Queensland From 1899 to 1955 1956 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland lxviii 10 51-60