Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The History of Biology in Australia
- In
- Australian Journal of Science
- Imprint
- vol. 17, no. 1, 1954, pp. 1-9
- Description
This paper was presented as the opening address of a symposium on the "History of Science in Australia" held at the thirtieth meeting of ANZAAS, Canberra on 18 January 1954.
- Abstract
"The History of Australian Science" was the title of Professor Ernest Scott's Presidential Address to ANZAAS in 1939. Another approach to the subject is not redundant, however, since he was an historian, while a biologist will, necessarily, see quite a different significance in the material available.
The history of Australian biology is boundless: when it must be confined within a single address, attention must be restricted to only the most prominent landmarks. This survey is divided into epochs, but that is purely a matter of convenience and the boundaries are largely arbitrary.
The epochs chosen are: before Cook and Banks; the Banksian era; the evolutionary era; the era of unfolding; the twentieth century.
- Source
- Mozley 1962
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