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MR. HARRY INNES PERKINS, I.S.O., died at Sydney on October 24, at sixty-three years of age, having retired in 1919 after a long and useful career in the Colonial Service. The son of Major-General?.?. Perkins, he was born at Simla, and educated at the King's School, Rochester. He held for a short time a post as Clerk to the Director of Public Works in Trinidad, and at the age of twenty obtained an appointment on the survey staff in British Guiana, where he ultimately became Acting Crown Surveyor. In 1884-1885 he took part in an expedition to Mount Roraima, and prepared a map of the mountain for the Royal Geographical Society. In 1895 ne was appointed Acting Commissioner of Mines. Early in that year his “Notes on British Guiana and its Gold Industry “was published. In these notes, Perkins prophesied that valuable diamond deposits would one day be discovered in the Mazaruni,—which has since become an important diamond-producing area. While Acting Commissioner of Mines, he served as one of the British Commissioners appointed for the demarcation of the British boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela, and in 1901 wrote a report on the geological features of the district traversed by the Commission. In some of his geological work he was associated with Sir J. B. Harrison, whose “Geology of the Goldfields of British Guiana,” published in 1908, included contributions by Perkins. He received the I.S.O. in 1904, and in the following year was appointed Surveyor General of British Honduras, where he later became a member of the Executive and of the Legislative Council.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 114, 760 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114760a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114760a0