William Frederick Petterd

William Frederick Petterd was a Tasmanian scientist and boot importer.

He was born in Hobart in 1849, and died in Launceston in 1910.

His first book, A Monograph of the land shells of Tasmania,[1] was the result of a talk to the Royal Society of Tasmania on 12 November 1878.[2]

Petterd described Dundasite in 1893.[3]

He wrote the Catalogue of the minerals of Tasmania, which was published in 1893,[4] and updated the catalogue in 1909, the year before his death.[5]

He was joint author of articles and books with William Harper Twelvetrees.[6][7]

He was a rock and mineral collector, and when he died "His mineral collection, valued at £1212, was placed in charge of the Royal Society of Tasmania on loan for 999 years."[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Petterd, W. F. (William F) (1879), A Monograph of the land shells of Tasmania, Launceston Examiner (Printer), retrieved 18 November 2016
  2. ^ Petterd, W. F, A monograph of the land shells of Tasmania, s.n, retrieved 18 November 2016
  3. ^ [1] Article about Petterd and his involvement in the Tasmanian Exhibition in Launceston in 1892
  4. ^ Petterd, W. F. (William Frederick) (1893), Catalogue of the minerals of Tasmania : with notes on their distribution, W. Grahame, jun., Government Printer, retrieved 18 November 2016
  5. ^ Petterd, William Frederick (1910), The minerals of Tasmania, John Vail, Govt. Printer, retrieved 18 November 2016
  6. ^ Twelvetrees, William Harper; Petterd, William Frederick (1898), Supplementary note on Limurite in Tasmania, retrieved 18 November 2016
  7. ^ Twelvetrees, W. H. (William Harper); Petterd, W. F. (William Frederick) (1898), [Collection of articles on geology, petrology and palaeontology in Tasmania], s.n, retrieved 18 November 2016
  8. ^ 'Petterd, William Frederick (1849–1910)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/petterd-william-frederick-4396/text7165, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 18 November 2016