University of Wollongong Research Online Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice- Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice- Chancellor (Education) - Papers Chancellor (Education) 1992 W.B. Clarke as Scientific Journalist Michael K. Organ University of Wollongong,
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[email protected] W.B. Clarke as Scientific Journalist Abstract This paper comments on W.B. Clarke's role as a scientific journalist in Sydney, 1839-1878. It also argues that Clarke has been misrepresented over time because large sections of his published work - specifically anonymous and signed newspaper articles - have not been considered in analyses of his life and assessments of his place in the history of Australian science. Disciplines Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences Publication Details This article was originally published as Organ, MK, W.B. Clarke as Scientific Journalist, Historical Records of Australian Science, 9(1), June 1992, 1-16. Original article available here. This journal article is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/asdpapers/99 existence; and that there is not one soli- W.B. Clarke as tary channel in which the interesting facts of scientific enquiry, agricultural experi- Scientific ment, or mechanical ingenuity, can be handed down to our children, registered for reference, or conveyed to other nations Journalist as a proof and evidence that this great and ambitious colony has yet been eman- Michael Organ* cipated from convict indifference, or the fumes of rum and tobacco.