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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.

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