The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Inc (1880 - )

Summary

The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Inc was established in 1880. The Club, which has premises in Blackburn, where they hold regular meetings, aims to stimulate an interest in natural history and conservation, as well as preserve native flora and fauna. In 2002 the Club has approximately 950 members.

From their Web site, December 2001 "The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) was founded in 1880, and continues as a vigorous and practical advocate of conservation and the study of natural history to this day. The Club has over 900 members and publishes the bimonthly magazine 'The Victorian Naturalist'."

Related entries

Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria - Records, 1873 - 1983, MS 11572; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
• Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria - Records, November 1945 - June 1957, PA 00/47; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Houghton, Sheila and Presland, Gary, Leaves from Our History: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 1880-2005 (Box Hill: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 2005), 30 pp. Details
• Presland, Gary, Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880 - 2015 (Blackburn, Vic.: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 2016), 275 pp. Details

Conference Proceedings

• Leaves from Our History: 125 Years of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Inc. - Symposium edited by Morton, Anne, Presland, Gary and Gibson, Maria (Burnley: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 2005), 254-378 pp. Details

Journals

• Grey, Ed and Grey, Pat, eds., 'Special issue 'to acknowledge and remember the Baron [von Mueller], and while it deals with the wider aspects of Mueller's involvement with natural history, the central issue is his association with [The Field Naturalists] Club [of Victoria]'.', The Victorian naturalist, 113, 1996, 128-228 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Calder, Malcolm, 'The FNCV and the VNPA', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (2005), 336-9. Details
• Clark, Wendy, 'The Junior Group: 62 years of encouraging young naturalists', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (6) (2005), 315-8. Details
• Cohn, Helen M., 'The Close Union Between the Herbarium and the Naturalists', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (2005), 281-9. Details
• Dedman, Valda, 'The FNCV's new century woman', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (6) (2005), 306-11. Details
• Fletcher, Meredith, '"Exotic Natives": the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria's Wildflower Shows', Victorian Historical Journal, 79 (2008), 93-106. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'Field Naturalists in Victoria's Alps', The Victorian naturalist, 107 (1990), 165-173. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'Of land and game: the role of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria in the establishment of Wilson Promontory National Park', The Victorian naturalist, 115 (1998), 266-73. Details
• Gillbank, Linden, 'Rambles, reports and reserves: the FNCV's early conservation of Victoria's natural heritage', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (6) (2005), 258-74. Details
• Houghton, Sheila, 'Mount Buffalo and the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria: an historic account', The Victorian naturalist, 115 (1998), 160-3. Details
• Houghton, Sheila, 'Frederick McCoy and the FNCV', The Victorian naturalist, 118 (2001), 314-8. Details
• Houghton, Sheila, '"If it is not against the rules": women in the FNCV 1880 - 1980', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (6) (2005), 290-306. Details
• May, T. W., 'From fungs to Fungimap: fungi and the FNCV', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (6) (2005), 319-26. Details
• Pescott, E. E., 'Sixty years of work: the history of the Field Naturalists' Club, year by year', The Victorian naturalist, 57 (1940), 4-30. Details
• Smith, Brian J., 'Marine studies and the FNCV', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (6) (2005), 311-4. Details
• Taylor, Angela, 'Baron von Mueller in the Field Naturalists Tradition', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 131-138. Details
• Walter, John, 'SGAP, Swaby and the FNCV', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (2005), 330-5. Details
• Willis, J. H., 'A botanical retrospect (F.N.C.V., 1880-1950)', The Victorian naturalist, 67 (1950), 65-70. Details
• Willis, J. H., 'The First Century of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria', The Victorian naturalist, 97 (3) (1980), 93-106. Details

Resources

• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-468708. Details

Reviews

• Presland, Gary, Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880 - 2015 (2016)
  Gaynor, Andrea, Victorian Historical Journal, 89 (2), (2018), 385-7. Details

See also

• Black, J. Hope, 'The Kershaw Dynasty', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (2005), 351-7. Details
• Smith, James, ed., The Cyclopedia of Victoria: an historical and commercial review: descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress (Melbourne: Cyclopedia Co, 1903-1905), vol.1: 618 pp, vol.2: 563 pp, vol.3: 643 pp. "The Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria" Vol.2 pp.78-9. Details