Robert Etheridge Junior

Robert Etheridge junior (born May 23, 1847 in Cheltenham , † January 4, 1920 ) was a British-Australian paleontologist .

Life

Etheridge was the son of the paleontologist Robert Etheridge , received his training from this and studied at the Royal School of Mines in London with Thomas Henry Huxley . From 1866 to its dissolution in 1869, he worked in Australia for the Geological Survey of Victoria under Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn . In 1871 he returned to England and in 1873 became a paleontologist with the Geological Survey of Scotland. From 1874 he was at the Natural History Museum in London, where he created a catalog of Blastoidea with Philip Herbert Carpenter and a monograph on fossils of the Silurian of the Girvan district in Ayrshire with Henry Alleyne Nicholson . In 1887 he went back to Australia, to whose paleontologists (especially Robert Logan Jack ) his contact never broke off and where he worked for the Geological Survey of New South Wales and the Australian Museum in Sydney , where he became curator in 1895. He initiated the publication of the Records of the Geological Survey and the Records of the Australian Museum in Australia, also dealt with the Aborigines and promoted the museum's impact by organizing lectures and demonstrations.

In 1895 he received the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales with Robert Logan Jack , in 1877 the Wollaston Fund of the Geological Society of London and in 1911 he received the Mueller Medal of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Several animal and plant species, a glacier in Antarctica and a gold field in Queensland are named after him.

Etheridge was married and had two sons.

Fonts

• with RL Jack: The Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea, 1892

Web links

• Dictionary of Australian Biography