Samuel Sidney

[1] Sidney's output on the subject of Australia was probably occasioned by his brother John's experiences there from around 1838 to 1843.

Sidney's 1852 book The Three Colonies of Australia sold 5,000 copies in its first year, and also had German and American editions.

[2][3] Sidney's Three Colonies of Australia is praised for impressive documentation and for "finely pointed and graceful" writing.

[2] On domestic matters Sidney first wrote about the question of railroad gauges and their consequences to agriculture and the economy.

His edit and rewriting of The Pig, a classic in animal husbandry by William Charles Linnaeus Martin, was praised.