Person

Hull, Arthur Francis Basset (1862 - 1945)

Born
10 October 1862
Hobart Town, Tasmania, Australia
Died
22 September 1945
Occupation
Public servant, Naturalist and Ornithologist

Summary

Arthur Hull was clerk in charge of legal matters, Department of Mines 1903-1921 and honorary ornithologist, Australian Museum 1917-1945. His particular interest was conchology.

Details

Born Hobart Town, 10 October 1862. Died Manly, Sydney, 22 September 1945. MBE 1936. Educated the High School, Hobart. Clerk, Supreme Court registry 1883-89; clerk, General Post Office, Sydney 1892-1900; secretary to the labour commissioners, Department of Public Works 1900-02; clerk in charge of legal matters, Department of Mines 1903-21; honorary ornithologist, Australian Museum 1917-45. President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1917-19, 1928-29, 1938-39, member of the Council for 35 years, Fellow and Honorary Member; member, Taronga Zoological Park Trust 1926-42; president, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1919-20; president, Linnean Society of New South Wales 1923-24; Corresponding Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union; Corresponding Member, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. His two special interests were philately, in which he published books and received many honours, and conchology, particularly loricates (Chitons). Published A Monograph of Australian Loricates with Tom Iredale (1927) and gave a duplicate set of his specimens to the Australian Museum. Commemorated by the genus Bassethullia and several species. His portrait, painted in 1941, is held by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

Chronology

1916 - 1919
Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1917 - 1945
Career position - Honorary Ornithologist, Australian Museum
1919 - 1920
Career position - President. Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
1923 - 1924
Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1928 - 1929
Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1928 - 1939
Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1931 - 1945
Award - Fellow, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Kloot, Tess, 'Hull, Arthur Francis Basset (1862-1945), Public Servant and Naturalist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 9 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 401-402. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090397b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Hull, A. F. Basset, 'The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. The Present Position and Future Aims', Australian Zoologist, 1 (1914), 65-67. Details
  • Iredale, Tom; and Hull, A. F. Bassett, 'Monograph of the Australian Loricates (Phylum Mollusca - Order Loricata), IX: appendix C, biography and bibliography', Australian zoologist, 4 (1927), 339-59. Details

Resources

See also

  • Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details
  • Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details
  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

Rosanne Walker

EOAS ID: biogs/P003154b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003154b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260