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17 Facts About Frederick McCoy

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Frederick McCoy is noted for founding the Botanic Garden of the University of Melbourne in 1856.

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McCoy was the son of Simon McCoy and was born in Dublin; some sources have his year of birth as 1823, however 1817 is the most likely.

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Frederick McCoy was educated in Dublin and at Cambridge for the medical profession.

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Frederick McCoy's interests became early centred in natural history and, especially, palaeontology.

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Frederick McCoy assisted Sir Richard Griffith by studying the fossils of the carboniferous and silurian rocks of Ireland, resulting in two publication: A Synopsis of the Character of Carboniferous Limestone Fossils of Ireland and Synopsis of the Silurian Fossils of Ireland.

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In 1854, Frederick McCoy accepted the newly founded professorship of natural science in the University of Melbourne, where he lectured for upwards of thirty years.

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When Frederick McCoy began his work at the university there were few students, and for many years he took classes in chemistry, mineralogy, botany, zoology, comparative anatomy, geology and palaeontology.

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Frederick McCoy convinced the Melbourne University and state Government to house the museum at the university.

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Frederick McCoy built up significant natural history and geological collections for the museum, as well as spending a substantial sum setting up a reference library to assist the scientific research undertaken by the museum's first curators.

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Frederick McCoy was in correspondence with several prominent scientists and collectors of the time, including John Gould, from whom he purchased specimens, including mammals, insects, shells, and bird skins, as well as copies of Gould's scientific publications for the museum.

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Frederick McCoy, on becoming associated with the Geological Survey of Victoria as palaeontologist, composed the volumes concerning his field as Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria.

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Frederick McCoy issued the Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria.

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Frederick McCoy was president of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1864 and vice-president in 1861 and 1870.

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Frederick McCoy helped to found a society intended to introduce exotic animals to Australia by "acclimatisation", responsible for the release of fish, mammals and flocks of birds with an often disastrous ecological impact; the Acclimatisation Society would later be renamed the Victorian Zoological Society.

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Frederick McCoy sought to replace what he perceived as the silence or unpleasant noises of the Australian bush with sounds of English songbirds, and celebrated the successful introduction of the european rabbit and starling which were already recognised as pests by the colonial farmers.

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Frederick McCoy was a Christian creationist who rejected evolution and natural selection.

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Frederick McCoy argued that the paleontological record offered evidence of the sudden appearance and disappearance of species.