Caught and Coloured: Zoology Illustrations from Colonial Victoria




McCoy Timeline

1846  
  • Publication of Synopsis of the Silurian Fossils of Ireland(based on his work for Sir Richard Griffith).
  • In November invited by Adam Sedgwick to arrange the fossil collection of the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge (worked 1846-1854).
1847
  • Publication of ‘On the fossil botany and zoology of the rocks associated with the coal of Australia’ in Annals and Magazine of Natural History (based on examination of fossils collected by Rev. W.B. Clark and sent to Sedgwick).
1849
  • Appointed Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at Queen’s College, Belfast.
  • Continued work with Sedgwick during vacations.
1852
  • Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

References

Reproduced from The Victorian Naturalist, Volume 118 (5), 2001, McCoy Special Issue Part One.