George Sweet (1844 – 1920) was an English-born Australian geologist, president of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1905. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Royal Society of Victoria is the oldest learned society in the state of Victoria in Australia.
Sweet investigated fossils in the Mansfield district for Frederick McCoy 1888-95, and was second-in-command to Sir Edgeworth David on the Funafuti expedition in 1897. Mansfield is a small town in the foothills of the Victorian part of the Australian Alps. Sir Frederick McCoy, FRS (1817 – 16 May 1899 was a British Palaeontologist and Museum administrator active in Australia. Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (commonly known as Edgeworth David KBE, FRS, ( 28 January 1858 – 28 August 1934) He was a fellow of the Geological Society
Sweet's daughter, Georgina Sweet (1875–1946), became a zoologist and philanthropist.
References
- Monica MacCallum, 'Sweet, George (1844 - 1920)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, MUP, 1990, pp 149-150. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB is a multi-volume project published by Melbourne University Press. Melbourne University Publishing (MUP is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne ( Australia)
- Sweet, George (1844 - 1920) at Bright Sparcs, University of Melbourne
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