Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881 - 1951)

Summary

Harvey Johnston was Professor of Biology, University of Queensland 1919-1922 and Controller of the Commonwealth Prickly Pear Laboratories 1920-1923. He was Professor of Zoology, University of Adelaide from 1922 and travelled to Antarctica with Douglas Mawson 1929-1931.

Details

T. Harvey Johnston was a biologist and parasitologist whose expertise in helminths was recognised world-wide, and who was integral to early efforts to control prickly pear. He was the first Lecturer in biology appointed to the University of Queensland and the first Professor of Zoology at University of Adelaide, 1922 - 1951, while concurrently Professor of Botany, 1928 - 1934. Between 1929 and 1931 he was Chief Zoologist of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Douglas Mawson. He made numerous collecting trips into outback South Australia with John Cleland 1929 - 1937. The Australian Helminth Collection assembled by Johnston was bequeathed to South Australian Museum.

Chronology

1906

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Sydney

1907

Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Sydney

1909 - 1911

Career position - Assistant Microbiologist, New South Wales Department of Health

1911

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Sydney

1911 - 1918

Career position - Lecturer in Charge, Department of Biology, University of Queensland

1913

Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne

1915 - 1916

Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland

1916 - 1917

Career position - President, Field Naturalists Club of Queensland

1919 - 1922

Career position - Professor of Biology, University of Queensland

1920 - 1923

Career position - Controller, Laboratories, Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board

1921 -

Career position - Foundation Councillor (Zoology), Australian National Research Council

1922 - 1951

Career position - Professor of Zoology, University of Adelaide

1923

Career position - President, Section D (Biology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1928 - 1934

Career position - Professor of Botany, University of Adelaide

1929 - 1931

Career position - Chief Zoologist, British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition

1931 - 1932

Career Position - President, Royal Society of South Australia

1935

Award - Sir Joseph Verco Medal, Royal Society of South Australia

1937

Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)

1939

Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

Related entries

Archival resources

Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide

• Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records, 1908 - 1938, 632.5/J73p; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details

South Australian Museum Archives

• Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records, 1929 - 1931, 164AAE and others; South Australian Museum Archives. Details
• Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records, 1914 - 1930, A.D. 37; South Australian Museum Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. Details
• Johnston, T. Harvey, Ticks (Ixodoidea) (Sydney: Government Printer, 1937), 20 pp. Details
• Johnston, T. Harvey, Trematoda (Sydney: Government Printer, 1937), 30 pp. Details
• Johnston, T. Harvey, Cestoda (Sydney: Government Printer, 1937), 77 pp. Details
• Johnston, T. Harvey, Parasitic nematoda (Sydney: Government Printer, 1938), 32 pp. Details
• Johnston, T. Harvey and Tryon, Henry, Report on the Prickly Pear Travelling Commission, 1st Nov 1912 - 30th April 1914 (Brisbane: Government Printer, 1914), 131 pp. Details
• Johnston, T. Harvey; and Best, Effie, Acanthocephala (Sydney: Government Printer, 1938), 21 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Sandars, Dorothea F., 'Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881-1951), biologist and parasitologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), p. 501. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090497b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Professor T. Harvey Johnston', Australian Journal of Science, 14 (3) (1951), 89. Details
• Dodd. A. P., 'The biological control of the prickly pear', Journal of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1 (1927), 48-54. Details
• Earley, C.M., 'List of Titles of the Published Works of Thomas Harvey Johnston, MA, DSc', Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 75-6 (1952), i-ix. Details
• Johnston, T. H., 'Biological control of the prickly-pear pest', Queensland agricultural journal, 16 (2) (1921), 65-8. Details
• Johnston, T. H., 'The Australian prickly pear problem', Report of the sixteenth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 16 (1923), 347-401. Details
• Johnston, T. Harvey, 'Frederick Manson Bailey, CMG, FLS Presidential Address', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 28 (1916), 3-10. Details
• Johnston, T. Harvey, 'A Hundred Years of Zoology in South Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, lx (1936), xli-lv. Details
• Longman, H. A., 'The late Professor S. B. J. Skertchly', Queensland naturalist, 5 (1926), 70-2. Details
• Sandars, D. F., 'Memorial lecture: Professor T. Harvey Johnston, first Professor of Biology in the University of Queensland', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 64 (1954), 57-68. Details
• Sandars, Dorothea F., 'Professor T. Harvey Johnston. Memorial Lecture', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 64 (1952), 57-68. Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'Medal Awards - For Antarctic Research Expedition', The Canberra Times (1934), 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2350520. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21395174. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/56995833. Details
• 'Johnston, T Harvey (1881-1951)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-492067. Details

See also

• Frawley, Jodi, 'Prickly Pear Land: Transnational Networks in Settler Australia', Australian Historical Studies, 38 (130) (2007), 323-38. Details