George Henry Frederick Ulrich

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Spouse(s) Catherine Sarah Spence Name George Frederick		Died May 26, 1900
Full Name Georg Heinrich Friedrich Ulrich Born 7 July 1830 Zellerfeld, Upper Harz, Germany Occupation Mineralogist, university professor, director of School of Mines Children Frank Ferdinand Aplin Ulrich (surgeon), George Henry Roemer Ulrich (lawyer)

George Henry Frederick Ulrich FGS (born as Georg Heinrich Friedrich Ulrich) (7 July 1830 – 26 May 1900) was a notable New Zealand mineralogist, university professor and director of the school of mines.

He was born in Zellerfeld, Germany in 1830.

Ulrich arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 1853 where he worked as a geologist and later became a lecturer in mining at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed curator of the mineral collection and lecturer in mineralogy at the Industrial and Technological Museum in Melbourne.

He died on 26 May 1900 examining rock specimens on Flagstaff Point, Port Chalmers near Dunedin, when he fell 100 feet (30 m). He was buried in the Dunedin Northern Cemetery.

Works

Gold and silver bearing reefs of St. Arnaud : report on the gold and silver bearing reefs of the district of St. Arnaud (1864)

Notes and observations on the Nuggetty Reef, Maldon (1868)

Contributions to the mineralogy of Victoria (1870)

Mineral resources north of Port Augusta : report of the mineral resources of the country lying within 250 miles north of Port Augusta (1872)

A descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Industrial and Technological Museum, Melbourne, illustrating the rock system of Victoria (1875)

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