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

1883-84Augustus Charles GregoryExplorer, Surveyor
1884-85Joseph BancroftSurgeon, Parasitologist
1885-86Lewis Adolphus Bernayspublic servant
1886-87Albert NortonPolitician, Pastoralist
1887-88Augustus Charles GregoryExplorer, Surveyor
1888-89Charles Walter De VisBiologist
1889-90William Saville-KentMarine Biologist
1890-91Frederick Manson BaileyBotanist
1891William Henry MiskinLawyer, lepidopterist
1891-92Albert NortonPolitician, Pastoralist
1892-93John ShirleyEducationist and scientist[7]
1894Robert Logan JackGeologist
1895Walter TaylorConstruction
1896Joseph LautererBiologist, Doctor, Ethnographer
1897Charles Joseph PoundMicroscopist, Bacteriologist[8]
1898Sydney Barber Josiah SkertchlyGeologist, Naturalist
1899Joseph William SuttonEngineer, Inventor
1900John ThomsonArmy surgeon and colonel
1901William James ByramLawyer, Poet
1902John Thomsonunknown
1903Wilton Wood Russell LoveMedicine, Surgeon, Medical technologist[9]
1904John Cameronunknown
1905John Brownlie HendersonAnalyst, Food Standards, Public Servant[10]
1906unknownunknown
1907Alfred Jefferis TurnerPaediatrician, Entomologist
1908Johannes Christian BrunnichChemist
1909John Frederick BaileyBotanist
1910William Robert ColledgeChemist[11]
1911John Brownlie HendersonAnalyst, Food Standards, Public Servant
1912Percy Leonard WestonEngineer[12]
1913Henry Caselli RichardsGeologist
1914John Shirleyunknown
1915Thomas Harvey JohnstonBiologist, Parasitologist
1916Ronald Hamlyn-HarrisEntomologist[13]
1917Elliott Henry GurneyAgricultural Science, Public Servant
1918Arthur Bache WalkomPalaeobotanist, Museum director
1919 Albert Heber Longman Naturalist, Museum Curator
1920F.B. Smithunknown
1921Cyril Tenison WhiteBotanist
1922Henry James PriestleyMathematician
1923unknownunknown
1924 E. O. Marks Geologist, Ophthalmologist
1924-25Walter Heywood BryanGeologist
1925-26Roger HawkenEngineer
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
1930-31J.B. Hendersonunknown
1931-32 Desmond A. Herbert Botanist
1932-33Thomas Gilbert Henry JonesChemist
1933-34 Raphael Cilento Medicine
1934-35John S. JustEngineer
1935-36Robert Veitchunknown
1936-37Jack Keith MurrayAgricultural science
1937-38L.S. BagsterBiochemistry
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
1941Herbert Robert SeddonVeterinarian
1942D.K.H. LeeMedicine
1943John BostockMedical doctor
1944F. Athol PerkinsEntomologist
1945Herbert John WilkinsonAnatomist
1946Owen Arthur JonesGeologist
1947E.M. Shephardunknown
1948Hugh C. WebsterPhysicist
1949 Dorothy Hill Geologist, Palaeontologist
1950M.F. HickeyMedicine
1951 Herbert John Hines Biochemist
1952 Ian Murray MacKerras Zoologist
1953Stanley Thatcher BlakeBotanist
1954Mansergh ShawEngineer
1955A.L. ReimannPhysicist
1956Alfred Roy BrimblecombeEntomologist, Public Servant
1957George MackOrnithologist
1958 Elizabeth Nesta Marks Entomologist
1959T.K. EwerAnimal Health
1960Alan Knox DenmeadGeologist
1961Selwyn Everistunknown
1962John O'HaganBiochemist
1963Jack Tunstall WoodsGeologist
1964Otto Egede Budtz-OlsenPhysiologist
1965 Clive Selwyn Davis Mathematician
1966John Edward CoaldrakeGeologist, Ecologist
1967Richard Harold GreenwoodGeography
1968E.J. BrittenProfessor
1969J. FrancisProfessor
1970Alan BartholomaiGeologist, Palaeontologist, Museum Curator
1971Jim M. ThomsonMarine scientist
1972Leendert ‘t MannetjeBotanist
1973Graham William SaundersEntomologist, Conservationist, Public Servant
1974H.M.D. HoyteParasitologist
1975G. MolyneuxProfessor
1976Michael MacLaren BrydenVeterinarian
1977Hugh John LaveryEcologist
1978-79Calvin Wyatt RoseEnvironmental physicist, Soil science
1979-80Bruce J. RigsbyAnthropologist
1980-81R.G. Eversonunknown
1981-82Robert 'Bob' W. JohnsonBotanist
1982-83A. BaileyBiologist, phycologist
1983-84Neville Cecil StevensGeologist
1984-85R.J. Colemanunknown
1985-86Paul S. SattlerEcologist, Public Servant
1986-87A.W. Coulterunknown
1988Peter Alexander JellGeologist
1989Ross A. HynesEcologist, Public Servant
1990M.G. Le Grandunknown
1991M.G. Le Grandunknown
1992E.D. McKenzieunknown
1993C.G. SmithChemistry
1994Robert 'Bob' W. JohnsonBotanist
1995Jeanette Adelaide CovacevichHerpetologist, Museum Curator
1995-97John JellGeologist
1998-99David DoleyBotanist
2000-01Julia PlayfordGeneticist
2002Peter Greshoff / Julia PlayfordGeneticists
2003Julia PlayfordGeneticist
2004-12Craig WaltonPublic Servant
2013-19Geoffrey EdwardsEcologist, 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. Shirley, John (1849–1922). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Angus, Beverley M. Pound, Charles Joseph (1866–1946). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ Leggett, C. A. C. Love, Wilton Wood Russell (1861–1933). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ Gibbney, H. J. Henderson, John Brownlie (1869–1950). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  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. Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald (1874–1953). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  14. ↑ Leggett, C. A. C. Duhig, James Vincent (1889–1963). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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