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| 1850 || Born December 14th at Ansty, Leicestershire. | |||
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| 1867 || Assistant in Geological Society Library and Museum. | |||
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| 1870 || Assistant Geologist on Geological Survey. | |||
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| 1870-1871 || Seconded as Geologist to the Khedive of Egypt. | |||
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| 1872 || Wrote “Elementary Physical Geography”. | |||
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| 1876 || Announced discovery of flint implements beneath boulder clay in East Anglia. | |||
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| 1881 || Retired from Survey. | | 1881 || Retired from Survey. | ||
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Quarterly Journal Geological Society London (1927) p. lx | Quarterly Journal Geological Society London (1927) p. lx | ||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Barber_Josiah_Skertchly Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly] — Wikipedia article | |||
Marks, E.N. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/skertchly-sydney-barber-josiah-8443 Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah (1850–1926)] Australian Dictionary of Biography | |||
[http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-477178 Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah (1850-1927)] Encyclopedia of Australian Science Also https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000782b.htm | |||
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/32605636@N06/49959682117 Headstone of Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, Nerang, Queensland.] | |||
[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314430625_Sydney_Barber_Josiah_Skertchly_1850-1926_Scientist_educator_and_advocate_for_Queensland_optometry Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly (1850-1926): Scientist, educator and advocate for Queensland optometry] Clinical and Experimental Optometry 100(4):402-406 | |||
[https://museum.aco.org.au/archive/3322-photographs-of-professor-sydney-barber-josiah-skertchly-1850-1926 Photographs of Professor Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly (1850-1926) Catalogue Number: 3269] | |||
== Publications == | == Publications == | ||
=== Survey publications === | |||
Whitaker, W. ; Woodward, H.B. ; Bennett, F.J. ; Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Jukes-Browne, A.J. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1891). The geology of parts of Cambridgeshire and of Suffolk (Ely, Mildenhall, Thetford) (...Sheet 51NE with part of 51NW). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series; 51N). London : HMSO. | |||
Whitaker, W. ; Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Jukes-Browne, A.J. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1893). The geology of south-western Norfolk and of northern Cambridgeshire (...Sheet 65). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO. | |||
Skertchly, S.B.J. (1877). The geology of the Fenland. (Memoir (District) Geological Survey of GB). London : HMSO. | |||
Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1879). On the manufacture of gun-flints : the methods of excavating for flint, the age of Palaeolithic man and the connexion between Neolithic art and the gun-flint trade. London : HMSO. | |||
===External publications === | |||
Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Lotbiniere, S. (1984). The manufacture of gunflints. Bloomfield, Ont. : Museum Restoration Service. | |||
Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Walker, J.J. (1893). Our island : a naturalist's description of Hong Kong. Hong Kong : Kelly and Walsh. | |||
Skertchly, S.B.J. (1908). The story of the noble opal. Brisbane : Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey Ltd. | |||
Miller, S.H. ; Skertchly, S.B.J. (1878). The Fenland past and present. Wisbech : Leach. | |||
Skertchly, S.B.J. (1873). Geology. (Murby's "Science and Art Department Series of Text-Books"). London : Thomas Murby. | |||
[[Category:Pioneers of the British Geological Survey]] | [[Category:Pioneers of the British Geological Survey]] | ||
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Timeline
| Date | Details |
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| 1850 | Born December 14th at Ansty, Leicestershire. |
| Royal School of Mines. | |
| 1867 | Assistant in Geological Society Library and Museum. |
| 1870 | Assistant Geologist on Geological Survey. |
| 1870-1871 | Seconded as Geologist to the Khedive of Egypt. |
| 1872 | Wrote “Elementary Physical Geography”. |
| 1876 | Announced discovery of flint implements beneath boulder clay in East Anglia. |
| 1881 | Retired from Survey. |
| 1888 | In California. |
| 1889 | In Borneo. |
| 1893 | Teaching botany in Hong Kong. |
| Paper with J.W. Kingsmill on Loess of Shangtung (Q.J. 1895). | |
| Paper on Geology of Queensland. | |
| President of the Royal Society of Queensland. | |
| 1926 | Died February 2nd at Brisbane. |
Biographies and obituaries
Quarterly Journal Geological Society London (1927) p. lx
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly — Wikipedia article
Marks, E.N. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/skertchly-sydney-barber-josiah-8443 Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah (1850–1926)] Australian Dictionary of Biography
Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah (1850-1927) Encyclopedia of Australian Science Also https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000782b.htm
Headstone of Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, Nerang, Queensland.
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly (1850-1926): Scientist, educator and advocate for Queensland optometry Clinical and Experimental Optometry 100(4):402-406
Photographs of Professor Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly (1850-1926) Catalogue Number: 3269
Publications
Survey publications
Whitaker, W. ; Woodward, H.B. ; Bennett, F.J. ; Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Jukes-Browne, A.J. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1891). The geology of parts of Cambridgeshire and of Suffolk (Ely, Mildenhall, Thetford) (...Sheet 51NE with part of 51NW). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series; 51N). London : HMSO.
Whitaker, W. ; Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Jukes-Browne, A.J. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1893). The geology of south-western Norfolk and of northern Cambridgeshire (...Sheet 65). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Skertchly, S.B.J. (1877). The geology of the Fenland. (Memoir (District) Geological Survey of GB). London : HMSO.
Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1879). On the manufacture of gun-flints : the methods of excavating for flint, the age of Palaeolithic man and the connexion between Neolithic art and the gun-flint trade. London : HMSO.
External publications
Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Lotbiniere, S. (1984). The manufacture of gunflints. Bloomfield, Ont. : Museum Restoration Service.
Skertchly, S.B.J. ; Walker, J.J. (1893). Our island : a naturalist's description of Hong Kong. Hong Kong : Kelly and Walsh.
Skertchly, S.B.J. (1908). The story of the noble opal. Brisbane : Flavelle, Roberts and Sankey Ltd.
Miller, S.H. ; Skertchly, S.B.J. (1878). The Fenland past and present. Wisbech : Leach.
Skertchly, S.B.J. (1873). Geology. (Murby's "Science and Art Department Series of Text-Books"). London : Thomas Murby.