Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
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| Date | Details |
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| 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
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.