Frederick McCoy
1821/2–99
Naturalist and geologist. Employed in arranging the fossil collection of the geological museum, Cambridge University, 1846–54. Professor of mineralogy and geology, and curator of the museum, Queen’s College, Belfast, 1849–54. Professor of natural science, University of Melbourne, 1854–99. Palaeontologist to the Australian Geological Survey, 1856. Director of the Museum of Natural and Applied Sciences, Melbourne, 1857–99. An ardent opponent of natural selection. Knighted, 1891. FRS 1880.
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Aust. dict. biog.
ODNB.
Bibliography
Aust. dict. biog.: Australian dictionary of biography. Edited by Douglas Pike et al. 14 vols. [Melbourne]: Melbourne University Press. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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