History of the geology department Project

History of the geology department Project (H.gd.P)

Recent work carried out in the last two year includes archival work on two former Professors of the Geology Department - Professor Herbert St John Summers (1876-1963) and Professor Edwin Sherbon Hills (1906-1986).

Artefacts and photographs relating to Herbert Summers’ time as Professor of Geology at the University of Melbourne were donated to the departmental archives by his nephew Paul Mason.

In 2008, E. S. Hills’ former home in Kew was sold and a number of geologically-related items were donated to the departmental archives. In addition, an extensive collection of reprints was offered to the university. These included reprints of his own papers as well as many papers related to his research, written by other scientists. These have been housed for the time being outside the University.

Historical material relating to John Walter Gregory’s time as Professor of Geology at the University of Melbourne from 1899 to 1904 was sent by Doug McCann to Professor Bernard Leake of Glasgow University who is writing Gregory’s biography.

On 28th September 2008 at Brighton Cemetery a ceremony took place to mark the restoration of Frederick McCoy’s gravesite. It was organised by the Brighton Cemetorians and a talk on McCoy’s life and achievements was delivered by Doug McCann.

Links to the main H.gd.P web pages

Professor Frederick McCoy

Professor John Walter Gregory

Professor Ernest Willington Skeats

Wikipedia entry

Professor Herbert St John Summers (download pdf file of 784 KB)

Professor Edwin Sherbon Hills:

Wikpedia entry

http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/hills.htm

Professor Charles Maurice Tattam

Chair of Geology and Mineralogy (1900 - 1968)

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