George Sweet

Geologist, Deceased Person

1844 – 1920

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Who was George Sweet?

George Sweet was an English-born Australian geologist, president of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1905.

Sweet investigated fossils in the Mansfield district for Frederick McCoy 1888-95, and was second-in-command to Sir Edgeworth David on the Funafuti expedition in 1897. He was a fellow of the Geological Society

Sweet's daughter, Georgina Sweet, became a zoologist and philanthropist.

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1844
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1920

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on July 23, 2013

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