Predecessor | Queensland Philosophical Society |
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Formation | 1884 |
Purpose | 'Progressing science in Queensland' |
Headquarters | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Membership | Individuals |
President | Dr Nelson Quinn |
Website | Official website |
The Royal Society of Queensland was formed in Queensland, Australia in 1884 from the Queensland Philosophical Society, Queensland's oldest scientific institution, [1] with royal patronage granted in 1885.
The aim of the Society is "Progressing science in Queensland". "Science" is interpreted broadly and includes a wide range of learned disciplines that follow scientific method. The Society is a non-partisan, secular, learned society, not an activist lobby group and does not campaign on environmental or planning issues. The Society supports science and scientific endeavour through publication of scientific research, public seminars and other events and maintenance of a substantial scientific library.
The Society is a custodian of scientific tradition and aims to counter the ill-effects of over-specialisation in the academy and shallowness in public debate. Networking between scientists, government, business and the community is a primary activity.
Membership is open to any person interested in the progress of science in Queensland. Although the membership includes a number of eminent and widely respected scientists and public intellectuals, the Society is neither elitist nor exclusive.
The Society hosts a Research Fund, established to sponsor research projects that escape the attention of the mainstream grant programs (such as those of the Australian Research Council). Donations are tax deductible under Australian taxation law. [2]
In 2018 the Society established the Queensland Science Network as an unincorporated collaboration between more than 20 Queensland-focused community-based scientific and naturalists' organisations. [3]
In 2019, the Society, along with co-organisers AgForce (peak body for broadacre agriculture) and NRM Regions Queensland (peak body for the regional natural resource management groups), organised a two-day Dialogue to examine how to transition the broadacre pastoral country (two-thirds of Queensland's area) to sustainability. The Dialogue produced a consensus Rangelands Declaration and a shared commitment to engage in further regional consultations and policy analysis.
The records of the Society, including the digitised Minute Books, are held by the State Library of Queensland. [4] [5] [6]
1883-84 | Augustus Charles Gregory | Explorer, Surveyor | |
1884-85 | Joseph Bancroft | Surgeon, Parasitologist | |
1885-86 | Lewis Adolphus Bernays | public servant | |
1886-87 | Albert Norton | Politician, Pastoralist | |
1887-88 | Augustus Charles Gregory | Explorer, Surveyor | |
1888-89 | Charles Walter De Vis | Biologist | |
1889-90 | William Saville-Kent | Marine Biologist | |
1890-91 | Frederick Manson Bailey | Botanist | |
1891 | William Henry Miskin | Lawyer, lepidopterist | |
1891-92 | Albert Norton | Politician, Pastoralist | |
1892-93 | John Shirley | Educationist and scientist [7] | |
1894 | Robert Logan Jack | Geologist | |
1895 | Walter Taylor | Construction | |
1896 | Joseph Lauterer | Biologist, Doctor, Ethnographer | |
1897 | Charles Joseph Pound | Microscopist, Bacteriologist [8] | |
1898 | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly | Geologist, Naturalist | |
1899 | Joseph William Sutton | Engineer, Inventor | |
1900 | John Thomson | Army surgeon and colonel | |
1901 | William James Byram | Lawyer, Poet | |
1902 | John Thomson | unknown | |
1903 | Wilton Wood Russell Love | Medicine, Surgeon, Medical technologist [9] | |
1904 | John Cameron | unknown | |
1905 | John Brownlie Henderson | Analyst, Food Standards, Public Servant [10] | |
1906 | unknown | unknown | |
1907 | Alfred Jefferis Turner | Paediatrician, Entomologist | |
1908 | Johannes Christian Brunnich | Chemist | |
1909 | John Frederick Bailey | Botanist | |
1910 | William Robert Colledge | Chemist [11] | |
1911 | John Brownlie Henderson | Analyst, Food Standards, Public Servant | |
1912 | Percy Leonard Weston | Engineer [12] | |
1913 | Henry Caselli Richards | Geologist | |
1914 | John Shirley | unknown | |
1915 | Thomas Harvey Johnston | Biologist, Parasitologist | |
1916 | Ronald Hamlyn-Harris | Entomologist [13] | |
1917 | Elliott Henry Gurney | Agricultural Science, Public Servant | |
1918 | Arthur Bache Walkom | Palaeobotanist, Museum director | |
1919 | Albert Heber Longman | Naturalist, Museum Curator | |
1920 | F.B. Smith | unknown | |
1921 | Cyril Tenison White | Botanist | |
1922 | Henry James Priestley | Mathematician | |
1923 | unknown | unknown | |
1924 | E. O. Marks | Geologist, Ophthalmologist | |
1924-25 | Walter Heywood Bryan | Geologist | |
1925-26 | Roger Hawken | Engineer | |
1926-27 | James Vincent Duhig | Pathologist, Bacteriologist [14] | |
1927-28 | E. J. Goddard | Biologist, Zoologist | |
1928-1929 | Thomas Parnell (scientist) | Physicist | |
1929-30 | J. P. Lowson | Medical Psychologist | |
1930-31 | J.B. Henderson | unknown | |
1931-32 | Desmond A. Herbert | Botanist | |
1932-33 | Thomas Gilbert Henry Jones | Chemist | |
1933-34 | Raphael Cilento | Medicine | |
1934-35 | John S. Just | Engineer | |
1935-36 | Robert Veitch | unknown | |
1936-37 | Jack Keith Murray | Agricultural science | |
1937-38 | L.S. Bagster | Biochemistry | |
1938-39 | Henry Caselli Richards | Geologist | |
1939-40 | Albert Heber Longman - also recorded "H.A. Longman" | Naturalist, Museum Curator | |
1940-41 | Frederick William Whitehouse | Geologist | |
1941 | Herbert Robert Seddon | Veterinarian | |
1942 | D.K.H. Lee | Medicine | |
1943 | John Bostock | Medical doctor | |
1944 | F. Athol Perkins | Entomologist | |
1945 | Herbert John Wilkinson | Anatomist | |
1946 | Owen Arthur Jones | Geologist | |
1947 | E.M. Shephard | unknown | |
1948 | Hugh C. Webster | Physicist | |
1949 | Dorothy Hill | Geologist, Palaeontologist | |
1950 | M.F. Hickey | Medicine | |
1951 | Herbert John Hines | Biochemist | |
1952 | Ian Murray MacKerras | Zoologist | |
1953 | Stanley Thatcher Blake | Botanist | |
1954 | Mansergh Shaw | Engineer | |
1955 | A.L. Reimann | Physicist | |
1956 | Alfred Roy Brimblecombe | Entomologist, Public Servant | |
1957 | George Mack | Ornithologist | |
1958 | Elizabeth Nesta Marks | Entomologist | |
1959 | T.K. Ewer | Animal Health | |
1960 | Alan Knox Denmead | Geologist | |
1961 | Selwyn Everist | unknown | |
1962 | John O'Hagan | Biochemist | |
1963 | Jack Tunstall Woods | Geologist | |
1964 | Otto Egede Budtz-Olsen | Physiologist | |
1965 | Clive Selwyn Davis | Mathematician | |
1966 | John Edward Coaldrake | Geologist, Ecologist | |
1967 | Richard Harold Greenwood | Geography | |
1968 | E.J. Britten | Professor | |
1969 | J. Francis | Professor | |
1970 | Alan Bartholomai | Geologist, Palaeontologist, Museum Curator | |
1971 | Jim M. Thomson | Marine scientist | |
1972 | Leendert ‘t Mannetje | Botanist | |
1973 | Graham William Saunders | Entomologist, Conservationist, Public Servant | |
1974 | H.M.D. Hoyte | Parasitologist | |
1975 | G. Molyneux | Professor | |
1976 | Michael MacLaren Bryden | Veterinarian | |
1977 | Hugh John Lavery | Ecologist | |
1978-79 | Calvin Wyatt Rose | Environmental physicist, Soil science | |
1979-80 | Bruce J. Rigsby | Anthropologist | |
1980-81 | R.G. Everson | unknown | |
1981-82 | Robert 'Bob' W. Johnson | Botanist | |
1982-83 | A. Bailey | Biologist, phycologist | |
1983-84 | Neville Cecil Stevens | Geologist | |
1984-85 | R.J. Coleman | unknown | |
1985-86 | Paul S. Sattler | Ecologist, Public Servant | |
1986-87 | A.W. Coulter | unknown | |
1988 | Peter Alexander Jell | Geologist | |
1989 | Ross A. Hynes | Ecologist, Public Servant | |
1990 | M.G. Le Grand | unknown | |
1991 | M.G. Le Grand | unknown | |
1992 | E.D. McKenzie | unknown | |
1993 | C.G. Smith | Chemistry | |
1994 | Robert 'Bob' W. Johnson | Botanist | |
1995 | Jeanette Adelaide Covacevich | Herpetologist, Museum Curator | |
1995-97 | John Jell | Geologist | |
1998-99 | David Doley | Botanist | |
2000-01 | Julia Playford | Geneticist | |
2002 | Peter Greshoff / Julia Playford | Geneticists | |
2003 | Julia Playford | Geneticist | |
2004-12 | Craig Walton | Public Servant | |
2013-19 | Geoffrey Edwards | Ecologist, Policy Analyst | |
2020–22 | Ross Hynes | Ecologist | |
2022– | Nelson Quinn | Legal scholar |
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