Samuel Stutchbury
1798–1859
Geologist and naturalist. Naturalist to the Pacific Pearl Fishery Company’s commercial expedition to New South Wales and the Pacific islands, 1825–7. Curator of the museum of the Bristol Philosophical Institution, 1831. Surveyor in Australia, 1850–5. Returned to England in 1855 and carried out consulting work on the coalfields.
Sources
Aust. dict. biog.
Sarjeant 1980.
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.
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