Charles Smith Wilkinson

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Charles Smith Wilkinson (22 August 1843 – 26 August 1891) was an Australian geologist.[1] He became geological surveyor in charge in New South Wales in 1875 and was president of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1887.

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Early life

Wilkinson was born tinPottersbury, Northamptonshire, England, to David Wilkinson, C.E..

Career

He urged Joseph Edmund Carne to study geology, subsequently in 1879, Carne joined the survey as assistant to Wilkinson.[2] In 1876 Wilkinson was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of London and in 1881 a fellow of the Linnean Society. In 1882 Edgeworth David was appointed assistant geological surveyor, Wilkinson delegated much responsibility to him.[1]

Late life and legacy

His name was commemorated in the fossil species of an early amphibian, Platyceps wilkinsonii Stephens 1887, after making the specimen used in its original description available to William John Stephens.[3]

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