Royal Society of South Australia
The Royal Society of South Australia (RSSA) is a Learned Society whose interest is in Science, particularly, but not only, of South Australia. The major aim of the Society is the promotion and diffusion of scientific knowledge, particularly in relation to Natural Sciences.
The Society stems directly from the Adelaide Philosophical Society founded on 10 January 1853. The title "Royal" was granted by her Majesty Queen Victoria in 1880 and the Society became known by its present designation. It was incorporated in 1883.
Adelaide Philosophical Society
The Society had its origins in a meeting at the Stephens Place home of J. L. Young (founder of the Adelaide Educational Institution) on the evening of 10 January 1853. Members inducted were Messrs. John Brown, John Howard Clark, Davy, Doswell, Charles Gregory Feinaigle, Gilbert, Gosse, Hamilton, Hammond, W. B. Hays, Jones, Kay, Mann, W. W. Whitridge, Williams, Wooldridge and John Lorenzo Young.[1] J. Howard Clark was elected secretary. On 15 September rules were adopted and His Excellency the Governor Sir Henry Young was elected president.[2] At the time of its first Annual General Meeting membership had risen to 35.[3] T. D. Smeaton has also been credited with helping found the Society.[4]
It became the Royal Society of South Australia late in 1880,[5] following the nomenclature used in other Australian colonies, and perhaps hoping to emulate their success.[6] The Field Naturalists Society of South Australia was formed as a section of the Society in 1883.
Membership
There are five classes of members:[7]
- Honorary Fellows,
- Sustaining Fellows,
- Fellows,
- Associate Fellows and
- Student Fellows
Awards and medals
The society awards:[8]
- The Verco Medal
- The Publication Medal
- The Royal Society of South Australia Postgraduate Student Prize
- The H. G. Andrewartha Medal
List of presidents
Royal Society of South Australia Presidents:[9]
Term | Name |
---|---|
1853–1854 | Sir Henry Young |
1855 | Benjamin Babbage |
1856–1861 | Sir Richard MacDonnell |
1862–1868 | Sir Dominick Daly |
1869–1872 | James Ferguson |
1877 | Sir William Jervois |
1878–1879 | Ralph Tate |
1880–1881 | Sir Samuel Way |
1882 | Sir Charles Todd |
1883 | H. T. Whittell |
1884 | Sir Horace Lamb |
1885 | Henry Mais [10] |
1886–1889 | Edward Rennie |
1889 | Sir Edward Stirling |
1890–1891 | Thomas Blackburn [11] |
1892–1894 | Ralph Tate (2nd term) |
1895–1896 | Walter Howchin |
1897–1899 | William Lennox Cleland |
1900–1903 | Edward Rennie (2nd term) |
1903–1921 | Sir Joseph Verco |
1921 | Richard Sanders Rogers [12] |
1922–1924 | Robert Pulleine [13] |
1925 | Sir Douglas Mawson |
1926 | Theodore Osborn |
1927 | Frederic Wood Jones |
1927–1928 | Sir John Cleland |
1929–1930 | Leonard Keith Ward |
1931 | Charles Fenner [14] |
1932 | Thomas Harvey Johnston [15] |
1933 | James Arthur Prescott |
1934 | John McConnell Black |
1935 | Thomas Draper Campbell [16] |
1936 | Cecil Madigan |
1937 | Herbert Mathew Hale [17] |
1938 | James Davidson [18][19] |
1939 | Henry Fry |
1940 | Ralph W. Segnit |
1941 | Sir John Cleland (2nd term) |
1942 | Joseph Garnett Wood |
1943 | William Ternent Cooke [20] |
1944 | Herbert Womersley [21] |
1945 | Sir Douglas Mawson (2nd term) |
1946 | Clarence Sherwood Piper [22] |
1947 | Hugh Christian Trumble [23] |
1948 | D. C. Swan |
1949 | Norman Tindale [24] |
1950 | A. W. Kleeman |
1951 | B. C. Cotton |
1952 | H. G. Andrewartha [25] |
1953 | S. B. Dickinson |
1954 | J. K. Taylor |
1955 | R. V. Southcott |
1956 | C. G. Stephens |
1957 | I. M. Thomas |
1958 | L. W. Parkin |
1959–1960 | T. R. N. Lothian |
1961 | R. V. Southcott (2nd term) |
1962 | Nelly Hooper Ludbrook |
1963 | J. T. Hutton |
1964 | A. R. Alderman |
1965 | S.J. Edmonds |
1966 | B. Daily |
1967 | H. B. S. Womersley |
1968 | K. R. Miles |
1969 | F. J. Mitchell |
1970 | C. B. Wells |
1971 | W. G. Inglis |
1972 | H. Wopfner |
1973 | K. E. Lee |
1974 | G. F. Gross |
1975 | J. W. Holmes |
1976 | C. R. Twidale |
1977 | B. P. Webb |
1978 | J. J. H. Szent-Ivany |
1979 | J. K. Ling |
1980 | S. A. Shepherd |
1981 | Warren Bonython |
1982–1983 | D. W. P. Corbett |
1984 | J. S. Womersley |
1985–1986 | Mike Tyler |
1987 | T. D. Scott |
1988–1989 | G. M. E. Mayo |
1990–1992 | N. A. Locket |
1992–1994 | W. D. Williams |
1994–1996 | M. Davies |
1996–1998 | T. C. R. White |
1998–2000 | M. A. J. Williams |
2000–2002 | N. F. Alley |
2002–2004 | O. W. Wiebkin |
2004–2006 | Rob W. Fitzpatrick [26] |
2006–2008 | Allan Pring [27] |
2008–2010 | John T. Jennings [28] |
2010–2012 | Nicholas J. Souter |
2012–2014 | Craig R. Williams |
2014–2016 | C. Michael Bull |
2016–Present | J. Long |
Verco Medal recipients
- "The medal shall be awarded for distinguished scientific work published by a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. It is the highest honour that the Society can bestow on one of its Fellows. Only those who have made a significant, outstanding contribution to their field(s) of study receive the award."[8]
The medal is named in honour of Joseph Verco. The first award of the medal was to Prof Walter Howchin in 1929.[29]
Previous winners include:
Year | Name | |
---|---|---|
1966 | Alderman | |
2004 | Neville Alley | [30] |
1962 | Herbert Andrewartha | |
1996 | Mike Archer (paleontologist) | |
1989 | Ian Beveridge | |
1930 | John McConnell Black | |
2003 | John Bowie | [31] |
1933 | John Burton Cleland | |
Patrick De Deckker | ||
1960 | Henry Herbert Finlayson | |
1999 | Rob Fitzpatrick | |
1970 | Martin Glaessner | [32] |
1946 | Herbert M. Hale | |
1935 | Thomas Harvey Johnston | [33] |
1929 | Walter Howchin | |
1976 | Hutton | |
1963 | Nelly Hooper Ludbrook | |
1945 | Cecil Madigan | |
1931 | Douglas Mawson | |
1971 | Charles P. Mountford | |
1972 | Parkin | |
1957 | Clarence Sherwood Piper | [34] |
1938 | James Arthur Prescott | |
1967 | Pryor | |
2008 | Scoresby Shepherd | |
2010 | Mike Smith | [35] |
1965 | Southcott | |
1961 | Specht | |
1968 | Reg Sprigg | |
1959 | Stephens | |
1974 | Thomas | |
1975 | Thomson | |
1956 | Norman Tindale | |
1980 | Michael J. Tyler | |
1955 | Leonard Keith Ward | |
Tom White | ||
2007 | Martin Williams | [36] |
1990 | William David (Bill) Williams | [37] |
1943 | Herbert Womersley | |
1969 | Hugh Bryan Spencer Womersley | [38] |
1944 | Joseph Garnett Wood | |
1973 | Wopfner | [39] |
1932 | not awarded | |
1934 | not awarded | |
1936–1937 | not awarded | |
1939–1942 | not awarded | |
1947–1954 | not awarded | |
1958 | not awarded | |
1964 | not awarded |
Notable members
Notable members of the Royal Society of South Australia have included:
- Prof. William Henry Bragg,[40]
- Prof. Sir Robert William Chapman,[40]
- Thomas Charles Cloud (died 1918),[40]
- Alexander William Dobbie (born 1843),[40]
- John William Hall Hullett (born 1847),[40]
- Prof. Horace Lamb
- Dr. Cecil Thomas Madigan (1889–1947),[40]
- James McGeorge,[40]
- Thomas Parker,[40]
- Walter Rutt (1842–1925),[40]
- Prof. Ralph Tate
- Sir Charles Todd,[40]
- Carl Albert Unbehaun (1851–1924)[40] and
- Robert Archibald White.[40]
See also
- Australian Academy of Science
- Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
- Royal Society of New South Wales
- Royal Society of Queensland
- Royal Society of Tasmania
- Royal Society of Victoria
- Royal Society of Western Australia
- The Royal Society (The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge)
- Royal Society (disambiguation)
References
- ↑ Adelaide Philosophical Society South Australian Register 11 January 1853 p.3 accessed 30 May 2011
- ↑ Adelaide Philosophical Society South Australian Register 19 September 1853 p.3 accessed 30 May 2011
- ↑ Adelaide Philosophical Society South Australian Register 30 January 1854 p.3 accessed 30 May 2011
- ↑ "The Late Mr. T. D. Smeaton". The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 19 February 1908. p. 5. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ↑ "Adelaide Philosophical Society". South Australian Register. XLV, (10, 577). South Australia. 7 October 1880. p. 2 (Supplement to the South Australian Register.). Retrieved 3 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Tuesday, October 12, 1880". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 12 October 1880. p. 4. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ↑ Membership, Royal Society of South Australia Inc.
- 1 2 Awards & Medals Archived 12 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine., Royal Society of South Australia Inc.
- ↑ List of Presidents Archived 4 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine., RSSA
- ↑ Sally O'Neill, 'Mais, Henry Coathupe (1827–1916)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Melbourne University Press, 1974, pp 200-201
- ↑ Blackburn, Thomas (1844–1912), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
- ↑ Joyce Gibberd, 'Rogers, Richard Sanders (1861–1942)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, p. 443.
- ↑ Neville Hicks, Helen McIntosh, 'Pulleine, Robert Henry (1869–1935)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp 306-307.
- ↑ Lynne Trethewey, 'Fenner, Charles Albert Edward (1884–1955)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, Melbourne University Press, 1981, pp 481-482.
- ↑ Dorothea F. Sandars, 'Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881–1951)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, p. 501.
- ↑ Tasman Brown, Ruth Rogers, 'Campbell, Thomas Draper (1893–1967)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 361-362.
- ↑ Hale, Herbert Mathew (1895–1963), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
- ↑ Davidson, James (1885–1945), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
- ↑ T. O. Browning, 'Davidson, James (1885–1945)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, Melbourne University Press, 1981, pp 226-227.
- ↑ Cooke, William Ternent (1877–1957), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
Margaret Macilwain, 'Cooke, Constance Mary Ternent (1882–1967)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp 76-77. - ↑ Womersley, Herbert (1889–1962), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
- ↑ Piper, Clarence Sherwood (1903–1988), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
- ↑ Trumble, Hugh Christian (1903–), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
- ↑ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1900–1993), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
- ↑ Andrewartha, Herbert George (1907–1992), Encyclopedia of Australian Science, www.eoas.info
L. C. Birch and T. O. Browning, Herbert George Andrewartha 1907-1992 Archived 2 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine., Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.9, no.3, 1993. - ↑ Dr. Rob W. Fitzpatrick, CSIRO
- ↑ Dr. Allan Pring, SA Museum. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ↑ Dr. John Jennings, University of Adelaide. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ↑ Award of the Sir Joseph Verco Medal 1929-1976, TRSSA, Vol 100, p.208, www.samuseum.sa.gov.au
- ↑ The Board of South East Energy
- ↑ Frog research – more than skin deep, 16 December 2003, also at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news635.html
- ↑ Glaessner, Martin Fritz (1906–1989), www.eoas.info
- ↑ Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881–1951), www.eoas.info
- ↑ Piper, Clarence Sherwood (1903–1988), www.eoas.info
- ↑ Dr Mike Smith, National Museum of Australia
- ↑ Royal Society honours for two, Adelaidean, October 2007, www.adelaide.edu.au
- ↑ Williams, William David (1936–), www.eoas.info
- ↑ Womersley, Hugh Bryan Spencer (1922–), www.eoas.info
- ↑ Dr Helmut Wopfner—Biography, PESA News, June/July 2010, p.56
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cumming, D.A. and Moxham, G. They Built South Australia published by the authors February 1986 ISBN 0-9589111-0-X
External links
- Royal Society of South Australia homepage
- Membership, RSSA
- The Story of the Royal Society, The Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide, SA), 22 March 1929, p. 13