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Clarke, William Branwhite. (1982). The Remarkable Reverend Clarke; the Life and Times of the Father of Australian Geology
Clarke, William Branwhite. (1982). The Remarkable Reverend Clarke; the Life and Times of the Father of Australian Geology

Clarke, William Branwhite. (1982). The Remarkable Reverend Clarke; the Life and Times of the Father of Australian Geology

Oxford University Press

Clarke, William Branwhite. (1982). The Remarkable Reverend Clarke; the Life and Times of the Father of Australian Geology, by Elena Grainger, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 292pp. Hardback, with dark blue cloth-covered boards and silver lettering to spine, without dustjacket. In nearly new condition.

Clarke (1798-1878), born in Suffolk and attending Adam Sedgwick’s lectures at Cambridge, emigrated to Australia in 1839. He discovered gold in bedrock (rather than alluvial gold) in 1841.