He had become assistant curator of the Australian museum in 1908 and in 1920 he succeeded Robert Etheridge, Junior as principal keeper of collections.
In 1896 he was the first recipient of the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.
He was educated at the Royal School of Mines, London, under Thomas Huxley, and was trained as a palaeontologist by his father.
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