Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
1850–1926
Geologist. Attended the Royal School of Mines, London. Assistant curator to the Geological Society of London; assistant geologist to the khedive of Egypt from late 1869. Geologist in the Fenlands and East Anglia for the Geological Survey of Great Britain in the 1870s. Member of the Geological Society of London, 1871. Assistant geologist, British Geological Survey, 1870–81. Went to California, Borneo, and China as a geologist. Moved to Brisbane, Australia, in 1891. Taught botany in Hong Kong in 1893. Assistant government geologist in the Geological Survey of Queensland, 1895–7. President of the Royal Society of Queensland, 1898.
Sources
Aust. dict. biog.
Pioneers of the British Geological Survey, www.bgs.ac.uk
Vincent 2017
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.
Vincent, Stephen J. 2017. Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly (1850–1926): scientist, educator and advocate for Queensland optometry. Clinical and Experimental Optometry 100: 402–6.
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