Caught and Coloured: Zoology Illustrations from Colonial Victoria




McCoy Timeline

1880  
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
  • Invited to be first President of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (President 1880-1883).
1880s & 1890s
  • Honorary member of many British and foreign learned societies.
  • Received honours from Italy and Austria.
1882
  • Publication of Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria ceased with seventh Decade.
1886
  • Received D.Sc. from Cambridge (one of the first granted).
  • Wife (Anna Marie Harrison, born c. 1819) died.
1887
  • Son (Frederick Henry, born 1843) died.
1891
  • Knighthood (KCMG) awarded.
  • Daughter (Emily Mary, born 1842) died.
1899
  • Died 13 May. Buried in the Brighton Cemetery, Melbourne.

References

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