photographer and geologist, came to Melbourne in 1852 with his wife and at least one child and worked for the Victorian Government Mineralogical Survey under Alfred Selwyn. With his co-worker Richard Daintree Wilkinson was using photography to illustrate reports and for displays by 1859. Their album, Photographs: Illustrative of Victorian Geology taken by Mr Richard Daintree, Late Field Geologist and Mr Charles Wilkinson, Field Geologist (Alexander Turnbull Library), was printed at the Victorian Public Land Office by Wilkinson and J. Noone .
The Charles F. Wilkinson who exhibited a 'Collection of Photographed Ferns’ at the 1869 Melbourne Public Library Exhibition seems to be the same person, while Charles Smith Wilkinson (c.1843-1891), a New South Wales geologist, was presumably his son.
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- Date written:
- 1992
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- 2011
