Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1930 - )

Summary

Founded in 1888 as the "Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science" (AAAS), the Association changed its name in 1930 to "Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science" (ANZAAS). The purpose of the Association is to promote the advancement of science.

ANZAAS held regular Meetings / Congresses, usually biennially, from 1930 until 1997 when the last Congress was held in Adelaide. The series "Report of the ... meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science" published by ANZAAS provide a major record of the development of science and technology in Australia and New Zealand.

From the Sections at ANZAAS meetings, collaborative and specialist scientific research programmes, publications and independent specialist societies evolved and developed.

In 1937, following the financial collapse of the Australian National Research Council, ANZAAS took over management of its membership. "Fellows" of ANZAAS resident in Australia, formed the Australian National Research Council, with half of their ANZAAS Fellowship fees going to the Council.

After the Australian National Research Council dissolved in 1954, to evolve into the Australian Academy of Science, ANZAAS took over the publication of the "Australian Journal of Science" until 1969/70 v.32, when it was superseded by the ANZAAS publication "Search" [ISSN: 0004-9549].

ANZAAS Student or Youth congresses were held concurrently from about 1975, and independently after the main Congresses ceased.

Details

ANZAAS Meetings / Congresses were held:
* 1932 Sydney (21st);
* 1935 Melbourne (22nd);
* 1937 Auckland, New Zealand (23rd);
* 1939 Canberra (24th);
* 1946 Adelaide (25th);
* 1947 Perth (26th);
* 1949 Hobart (27th);
* 1951 Brisbane (28th);
* 1952 Sydney (29th);
* 1954 Canberra (30th);
* 1955 Melbourne (31st);
* 1957 Dunedin, New Zealand (32nd);
* 1958 Adelaide (33rd);
* 1959 Perth (34th);
* 1961 Brisbane (35th);
* 1962 Sydney (36th);
* 1964 Canberra (37th);
* 1965 Hobart (38th);
* 1967 Melbourne (39th);
* 1968 Christchurch, New Zealand (40th);
* 1969 Adelaide (41st);
* 1970 Port Moresby, New Guinea (42nd);
* 1971 Brisbane (43rd);
* 1972 Sydney (44th);
* 1973 Perth (45th);
* 1975 Canberra (46th);
* 1976 Hobart (47th);
* 1977 Melbourne (48th);
* 1979 Auckland, New Zealand (49th);
* 1980 Adelaide (50th);
* 1981 Brisbane (51st);
* 1982 Sydney (52nd);
* 1983 Perth (53rd);
* 1984 Canberra (54th);
* 1985 Monash University, Melbourne (55th);
* 1987 Palmerston North, New Zealand (56th);
* 1987 Townsville (57th);
* 1988 Sydney (58th);
* 1990 Hobart (59th);
* 1991 Adelaide (60th);
* 1992 Brisbane (61st);
* 1993 Perth (62nd);
* 1994 Geelong (63rd);
* 1995 Newcastle (64th);
* 1996 Canberra (65th);
* 1997 Adelaide (66th).

Related entries

Timeline

 1888 - 1930 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
       1930 - Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science - Records, 1886 - 1961, ML MSS 988; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science - Records, [Manuscript] 1959-1993, 1959 - 1993, NLA MS 9173; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, South Australian Division - Records, 1888 - 1983, SRG 48; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science - Records, 1974 - 1978, 89/142; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Weickhardt, L. W., ANZAAS: the First Half Century as Illuminated by the Spectral Line of Masson (Melbourne: Monash Congress, 1985), 420 at 421-426 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Rae, Ian D., 'Chemists at ANZAAS: Cabbages or Kings?' in The Commonwealth of Science: ANZAAS and the Scientific Enterprise in Australasia, 1888-1988, Roy MacLeod, ed. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 166-195. Details

Conference Papers

• Best, R. J., 'History of ANZAAS' (Monash: 1985), pp. 1-12.. Details

Conference Proceedings

• Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Auckland meeting, January, 1937 edited by Brogan, F. J. A. (ANZAAS, 1937), 545 pp. Details
• Report of the twenty-fourth meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Canberra meeting, January, 1939 edited by Walkom, Margaret (Sydney: ANZAAS, 1939), 455 pp. Details

Edited Books

• MacLeod, Roy ed., The Commonwealth of Science: ANZAAS and the Scientific Enterprise in Australasia, 1888-1988 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988), 433 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Anaxagoras, 'Decay of ANZAAS', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 26 (1959), 42-44. Details
• Elkin, A. P., 'ANZAAS. A History', Australian Journal of Science, 25 (1962), 2-4. Details
• Wheeler, Edward, 'The First ANZAAS Congress', Search, 13 (3-4) (1982), 82-86. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4824836. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/125475358. Details
• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-458345. 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
• Adam, Paul, 'Our own worst enemies?' in Science under siege: zoology under threat, Banks, Peter, Lunney, Daniel and Dickman, Chris, eds (Mosman, N.S.W.: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2010), pp. 69-78, https://doi.org/10.7882/FS.2012.039. Details
• Huxley, L. G. W., 'Research in Mathematics and Physics' in Introducing South Australia : [prep. originally for the 33rd meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science], Rupert Best, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1958). Details
• Webb, L. J.; and Kikkawa, J. eds, Australian tropical rainforests : science - values -meaning (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1990), 185 pp. Details