Published Resources Details
Gazette Article
- Title
- Board of Science [Establishment and initial Board members]
- Imprint
- Victorian Government, Melbourne, June 4, 1858, 1065 pp
- Url
- https://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1858&class=general&page_num=1065
- Abstract
The Chief Secretary, John O'Shanassy, announced the establishment and appointment, on 3 June 1858, of members of "a Board of Science to advise the Government on all matters wherein special scientific or technical knowledge is requisite".
Those appointed were:
* Andrew Clarke (MLA);
* Charles Pasley (Commissioner of Public Works);
* Frederick McCoy (Prof. Natural History, University of Melbourne);
* Charles W. Ligar (Surveyor General);
* George C. Darbyshire (Engineer-in-Chief, Victorian Railways);
* Alfred Selwyn (Government Geologist);
* Ferdinand Mueller (Government Botanist);
* Thomas Skilling (Model Farm),
* R. Brough Smyth.