Corporate Body
Agricultural Society of New South Wales (1822 - 1891)
- From
- 1822
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - To
- 1891
- Functions
- Association and Society or membership organisation
- Location
- Sydney, New South Wales
Summary
The Agricultural Society of New South Wales was established in 1822. The Society aimed to further the quality of Australia's primary production, staging their first show in Parramatta in 1823. Hawkesbury Agricultural College was established as a result of the Society's movements towards establishing agricultural colleges and experimental farms. In 1891 the Society gained permission to use the prefix 'Royal' and became known as the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales.
Related entries
Timeline
1822 - 1891 Agricultural Society of New South Wales
1891 - Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales
Published resources
Books
- Fletcher, Brian Hinton, The Grand Parade: a History of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales (Paddington, New South Wales: Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, 1988), 328 pp. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-495316. Details
See also
- 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/index_a.html. Details
- MacLeod, Roy, 'Organizing Science Under the Southern Cross' in The Commonwealth of Science: ANZAAS and the Scientific Enterprise in Australasia, 1888-1988, Roy MacLeod, ed. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 19-39. Details
- Maiden, J. H., 'A Contribution to a History of the Royal Society of New South Wales, with Information in Regard to Other New South Wales Societies', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, lii (1918), 215-361. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 18 February 2000, Last modified: 3 February 2010
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