Royal Society of Queensland
PredecessorQueensland Philosophical Society
Formation1884
Purpose'Progressing science in Queensland'
HeadquartersBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
Membership
Individuals
President
Dr Nelson Quinn
WebsiteOfficial 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]

Presidents

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Marks, Elizabeth N. (1960). A history of the Queensland Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Queensland from 1859-1911 (PDF). Brisbane: Royal Society of Queensland. Repr. from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland; vol. 72 no. 2 (Aug. 1960). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Research". The Royal Society of Queensland. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Queensland Science Network". Queensland Science Network. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Royal Society of Queensland Records 1889-2008. State Library of Queensland". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Royal Society of Queensland Records 1963-1964". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Royal Society of Queensland Minute Books 1883-1946". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  7. ^ Marks, E. N. (1988). "John Shirley (1849–1922)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  8. ^ Angus, Beverley M. (2005). "Charles Joseph Pound (1866–1946)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. Supplement. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  9. ^ Leggett, C. A. C. (1986). "Wilton Wood Russell Love (1861–1933)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017.
  10. ^ Gibbney, H. J. (1983). "Henderson, John Brownlie (1869–1950)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 9. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Chemist who went on to be insect expert". Morpeth Herald. 5 October 2014. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  12. ^ "PERSONAL". The Brisbane Courier. No. 18, 912. Queensland, Australia. 29 August 1918. p. 9. Archived from the original on 20 August 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ Marks, E. N. (1983). "Ronald Hamlyn-Harris (1874–1953)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 9. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015.
  14. ^ Leggett, C. A. C. (1982). "James Vincent Duhig (1889–1963)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 8. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017.

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