Corporate Body
The University of Melbourne (1853 - )
- From
- 1853
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Functions
- Education
- Website
- http://www.unimelb.edu.au/
- Location
- Melbourne, Victoria
Summary
The University of Melbourne was the second university to be established in Australia, the first for the state of Victoria. The legislation for its establishment was passed by parliament in early 1853, the foundation stone laid in July 1854 and classes commenced in April 1855. Initially the University boasted only four faculties and sixteen students. By the end of the 20th century there was a total of around 34,000 students and 13 faculties.
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Archival resources
Wellcome Collection
- Victoria Eugenics Society, 1940 - 1961, SA/EUG/E.4; Eugenics Society [SA/EUG]; Wellcome Collection. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Department of State and Regional Development, Guides to Current Research in Victorian Universities, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/asaw/exhib/awvs/awvs.htm. Details
Books
- University of Melbourne Archives: guide to collections (Parkville, Victoria: Archives Board of Management, University of Melbourne, 1983), 210 pp. Details
- Allen, H. B., History of the Medical School. in University of Melbourne Medical School Jubilee 1914 (Melbourne: Ford & Son, 1914). Details
- Blainey, Geoffrey, A Centenary History of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957). Details
- Blainey, Geoffrey; Olver, Norman H., The University of Melbourne: a centenary portrait (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1956), 176 pp. Details
- Carey, Jane, Women and Science at the University of Melbourne: Reflections on the Career of Dame Margaret Blackwood (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, History of the University Project, 1996), 24 pp. Details
- Hare, William S. C., Radiology at the University of Melbourne: a History from Roentgen to the Year 2000 (Parkville: the author, 2004), 231 pp. Details
- Hohne, H., Success and failure in scientific faculties of the University of Melbourne: an extended follow-up of 901 students who had entered the Faculties of Science, Engineering, Medicine, Dentistry and Agriculture in 1943 and 1944 (Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Rsearch, 1955), 129 pp. Details
- Kelly, Farley, Degrees of Liberation: a Short History of Women in the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: The Women Graduates Centenary Committee of the University of Melbourne, 1985), 172 pp. Details
- Poynter, John and Rasmussen, Carolyn, A place apart: the University of Melbourne: decades of challenge (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), 546 pp. Details
- Priestley, Raymond, The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor: University of Melbourne 1935-1938 (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2002), 555 pp. Details
- Radford, Joan, The Chemistry Department of the University of Melbourne: its contribution to Australian Science, 1854-1959 (Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1978), 314 pp. Details
- Radok, Uwe, UNIMET - the Meteorological Department of the University of Melbourne 1937-1990 (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Meteorology Section, School of Earth Sciences, 1993), 50 pp. Details
- Rasmussen, Carolyn, Increasing Momentum: Engineering at the University of Melbourne, 1861-2004 (Carlton: University of Melbourne, 2004), 244 pp. Details
- Scott, Ernest, A History of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1936), 226 pp. Details
- Weickhardt, L.W., Masson of Melbourne: the Life and Times of David Orme Masson KBE, MA, DSc, LLD, FRSE, FRS, Professor of Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1886-1923 (Parkville, Vic: Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 1989), 226 pp. Details
Book Sections
- 'Settler-colonial knowledge' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 181-310, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- Jones, Ross L, 'Place' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 3-5, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- Jones, Ross L., 'Human remains' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 95-106. https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- Jones, Ross L. ; Waghorne, James; and Langton, Marcia, 'Introduction' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. xiii-xxix, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- Jones, Ross L.; Farley, Simon, 'Indigenous knowledge' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 311-321, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- Laidlaw, Zoë, 'Settler-colonial philanthropy and Indigenous dispossession' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 22-49, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- Langton, Marcia, 'Conclusion' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 487-489, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
Edited Books
- Jones, Ross L., Waghorne, James and Langton, Marcia eds, Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), 528 pp, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
- Olver, Norman H. ed., The University of Melbourne Mildura Branch 1847 - 1949: a short history; J. S. Rogers, Warden (Mildura, Vic.: University of Melbourne Mildura Branch, 1992), 216 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- 'The Veterinary Schools in Australia. I. The Sydney University Veterinary School II. The Melbourne University Veterinary School', Australian Veterinary Journal, 1 (1925), 40-41; 75-47. Details
- Buchanan, A. S., 'The Changing Pattern of University Research. The Chemistry School, Melbourne', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, 30 (1963), 193-196. Details
- Buchanan, Gwynneth, 'The Melbourne University Science Club, 1888-1937', The Science Review (1937), 16-21. Details
- Budd, W. F., 'The Meteorology Department of the University of Melbourne', Australian meteorological magazine, 28 (1) (1980), 43-4. Details
- Clark, G.M.; Black, R.C.; Forster I.C.; Patrick, J.F.; Tong, Y.C., 'Design Criteria of a Multiple-electrode Cochlear Implant Hearing Prosthesis', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 63 (1978), 631-633. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/28713. Details
- Gregg, Julie, 'The Centenary of Women in Medicine: the Early Years of the School of Medicine, University of Melbourne', Australian Dr (1987), 16-17, 51. Details
- Owen, Morris D., 'The Department of Medical History on the University of Melbourne and the first Australian Seminar on Medical History', Australasian radiology, 11 (4) (1967), 305-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.1967.tb01543.x. Details
- Spicer, B. M., 'Physics at the University of Melbourne', Australian Physicist, 17 (7) (1980), 113-116. Details
- Spiro, M., 'Scientific Societies in Australia. The Melbourne University Chemistry Society (MUCS)', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, 27 (1960), 118-123. Details
- Sweet, Georgina, 'Gilruth and the Melbourne University Veterinary School and the Research Institute. 1909-1912', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 108-110. Details
- Wadham, Sir Samuel, 'The Extension to the Agricultural School. [Historical Review of the University of Melbourne School.]', Melbourne University Gazette, 11 (1955), 82-83. Details
- Wilkinson, Ian R., 'Frederick McCoy: First Science Professor at the University of Melbourne', History of Education Review, 25 (1) (1996), 54-70. Details
- Zainu'ddin, Ailsa, 'The Admission of Women to the University of Melbourne', Melbourne Studies in Education (1973), 51-104. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'Increasing momentum: the origins of engineering at the University of Melbourne', UniNews (2004), 4-5, http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/view.php?articleID=1810. Details
Reports
- Equal Opportunity Unity, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne Faculty Employment by Gender 2001 (Melbourne: The University of Melbourne, 2001). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q319078. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/146316977. Details
- International Application Published Under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). 59812/80: Speech Processor [Specification AU-A], This is a digital copy of documents including an international application (PCT), specifications and an international search report for a patent on a "speech processor". The publication date of 11 December 1980 refers to the international publication date recorded on the application., World Intellectual Property Organization: International Bureau, 11 December. http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/pdfSource.do?fileQuery=[Wkh%40ir{%29ilohqdph%40DX4%3C%3B338%3C%3B45D31sgi%29Wkh%40od}|. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-593909. Details
Resource Sections
- Falvey, Lindsay and Bardsley, Barrie, 'Chapter 6: Agriculture at The University of Melbourne, 1905', in Agricultural and Related Education in the Victorian Colleges and the University of Melbourne, 1999, http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/dean/book2/ch6.html. Details
Reviews
- Radford, Joan, The Chemistry Department of the University of Melbourne: its contribution to Australian Science, 1854-1959, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1978.
Bowie, John H., Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2), (1981), 126-127. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520123. Details - Rasmussen, Carolyn, Increasing Momentum: Engineering at the University of Melbourne, 1861-2004 (2004)
Lloyd, Brian E., Historical Records of Australian Science, 16 (1), (2005), 113-115. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05006. Details - Priestley, Raymond, edited by Ronald Ridley The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor: University of Melbourne 1935-1938, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2002, 555 pp.
Low, D.A., Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (2), (2002), 248-249. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR02011. Details - Radford, Joan, The Chemistry Department of the University of Melbourne: its contribution to Australian Science, 1854-1959, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1978.
Thomas, F. G., Search, 12 (8), (1981), 282-283. Details
Teaching resources
- Dadswell, Herbert Eric, Dadswell Memorial Wood Collection (2011). http://www.pi.csiro.au/aus_biological_collections/other.html. Details
Theses
- Allen, Felicity, 'Progress or Stagnation: Women at the University of Melbourne, 1974-1984', PhD thesis, Monash University, 1986. Details
See also
- 'Dr Keith Thomas Henry Farrer OBE MA DSc FTSE - Biographical Note', Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=648. Details
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/. Details
- Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_u.html. Details
- Gleadow, A. J. W.; and Lovering, J. F., 'Development of geochronology in Victoria', Australian journal of earth sciences, 55 (6/7) (2008), 753-67, https://doi.org/10.1080/08120090802094119. Details
- Long, Rohan, 'Five previously undescribed thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) specimens held in the museums of the University of Melbourne', Australian zoologist, 43 (3) (2024), 455-69. https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.013. Details
- McPhee, Peter, 'Wright, Sir Roy Douglas (1907-1990), Professor of Physiology and University Administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), pp. 639-40. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wright-sir-roy-douglas-pansy-1068. Details
- Murphy, Sean, The Cranbourne meteorite (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly publishing, 2023), 164 pp. Details
- Quilty, Patrick G.; and Lugg, Desmond J., 'Phillip Garth Law 1912-2010', Historical Records of Australian Science, 24 (1) (2013), 134-59, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12026. Details
- Rae, Ian, 'Trials of a Vice-chancellor', Chemistry in Australia, 81 (2) (2014), 41. Details
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Created: 15 December 1999, Last modified: 22 March 2006
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