Frederick McCoy (1821/2–99)

Naturalist and geologist. Employed in arranging the fossil collection of the geological museum, Cambridge University, 1846–54. Professor of mineralogy and geology, and curator of the museum, Queen’s College, Belfast, 1849–54. Professor of natural science, University of Melbourne, 1854–99. Palaeontologist to the Australian Geological Survey, 1856. Director of the Museum of Natural and Applied Sciences, Melbourne, 1857–99. An ardent opponent of natural selection. Knighted, 1891. FRS 1880.