George Sweet (1844 – 1920) was an

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n geologist, president of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1905. Sweet investigated fossils in the

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district for Frederick McCoy 1888-95, and was second-in-command to Sir Edgeworth David on the Funafuti expedition in 1897. He was a fellow of the Geological Society Sweet's daughter,

Georgina Sweet Georgina Sweet (22 January 1875 – 1 January 1946) was an Australian zoologist and women's rights activist. She was the first woman to graduate with a Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne, and was the first female acting pr ...

(1875–1946), became a zoologist and philanthropist.

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