Person
Rogers, Richard Sanders (c. 1861 - 1942)
FLS
- Born
- c. 2 December 1861
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 28 March 1942
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Orchidologist
Summary
Richard Rogers was consulting physician at the (Royal) Adelaide Hospital from 1897 to 1942 and a became a hypnotist of some note. He became a world authority on Australasian orchids describing over 113 new species and three new genera working closely with R. Fiveash and H.M.R. Rupp.
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Chronology
- 1882
- Education - BA, University of Adelaide
- 1887
- Education - MB ChM, University of Edinburgh
- 1887 - 1909
- Career position - Honorary Physician, Adelaide Hospital
- 1891
- Education - ChM, University of Adelaide
- 1891 - 1938
- Career position - Member, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association
- 1893
- Education - MD, University of Edinburgh
- 1896 - 1922
- Career position - Member, Board of Management, Adelaide Hospital
- 1897
- Education - MD, University of Adelaide
- 1897
- Education - MA, University of Adelaide
- 1907 - 1922
- Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1909 - 1942
- Career position - Consulting Physician, Adelaide Hospital
- 1910 - 1940
- Career position - Member, Medical Board of South Australia
- 1913 - 1921
- Career position - Deputy Chairman, Board of Management, Adelaide Hospital
- 1914 - 1919
- Career position - Vice-President, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1914 - 1919
- Career position - Lt Colonel in command of 7th Australian General Hospital, Keswick, South Australia
- 1919 - 1939
- Career position - Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, The University of Adelaide
- 1921 - 1922
- Career position - President, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1922 - 1924
- Career position - Vice-President, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1922 - 1936
- Career position - First Superintendent (Visiting), Enfield Receiving House
- 1924 - 1942
- Career position - Fellow, Linnean Society of London (FLS)
- 1929 - 1931
- Career position - Chairman of the Board of the Public library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia
- 1929 - 1936
- Career position - Visiting Superintendent, Northfield Mental Hospital
- 1932
- Career position - President, Section M (Botany), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting, Sydney
- 1932 - 1938
- Career position - President, Medical board of South Australia
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus brachycalyx Blakely: Rogers collected the type specimen
- 1936
- Education - DSc, University of Adelaide
- 1938 - 1942
- Career position - Founding Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1939 - 1942
- Career position - Honorary Consulting Physician to all South Australian mental institutions
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Archival resources
Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide
- Richard Sanders Rogers - Records, 1890 - 1942; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details
Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium
- Richard Sanders Rogers - Records, 1861 - 1942; Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium. Details
National Herbarium, Melbourne
- Richard Sanders Rogers - Records, 1912 - 1937, MSS 4; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Black, J. M., Flora of South Australia., 4 vols (Adelaide: British Science Guild, South Australian Branch, 1922-1929). Details
- McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details
- Rogers, R. S.; illustrated by Rosa Fiveash, An introduction to the study of South Australian orchids (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1911), 63 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Gibberd, Joyce, 'Rogers, Richard Sanders (1861-1942), Orchidologist and Physician' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Geoffrey Serle, ed., vol. 11 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), p. 443. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110450b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: Dr. R. S. Rogers', Australian Journal of Science, 4 (5) (1942), 154. Details
- Cleland, J. Burton, 'Obituary: Richard Sanders Rogers', Medical Journal of Australia, 1942 (1) (1942), 589-90. Details
- Pescott, Edward E., 'Australian orchidology', The Victorian naturalist, 49 (1932), 196-9. Details
- Rogers, R. S., 'Presidential address: a history of the Society, particularly its relation to other institutions in the state', Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 46 (1922), 615-46. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3281627. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/16867036. Details
- 'Rogers, R S (1861-1942)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-476062. Details
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