Caught and Coloured: Zoology Illustrations from Colonial Victoria




McCoy Timeline

1861  
  • Vice-President of the Royal Society of Victoria.
  • Acclimatisation Society established with McCoy and Frederick von Mueller Vice-Presidents.
  • Publication of ‘ Note on the ancient and recent natural history of Victoria ’ in Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition – the first general account of palaeontology and zoology in Victoria.
1864
  • President of the Royal Society of Victoria.
1867
  • Publication of ‘ On the recent zoology and palaeontology of Victoria ’ in Annals and Magazine of Natural History (included the first detailed list of Victorian birds).
1869
  • Public lecture: ‘ The order of creation’.
  • Began publication of a series of popular articles on Victorian and Australian natural history in the Australasian under the pseudonym ‘Microzoon’ (1869-1871).

References

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