Waite Agricultural Research Institute (1924 - 1991)

Summary

The Waite Agricultural Research Centre was established in 1924 as a centre for agricultural research and development. In 1991, along with Roseworthy Agricultural College, it became a campus of Adelaide University's Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.

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Timeline

 1924 - 1991 Waite Agricultural Research Institute
       1991 - Waite Campus
             1991 - Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences

Published resources

Books

• Edgeloe, V. A., The Waite Agricultural Research Institute: the First Fifty Years, 1924-74 (Adelaide: The Institute, 1984). Details
• Zeitz, Lynette D., The Waite: a Social and Scientific History of the Waite Agricultural Research Institution (Adelaide: Barr Smith Press, 2014), 441 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Best, Rupert J., 'Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson C.M.G., D.Sc. (Melb.), M.A. (Adel.), B.Sc. (Agric.) (Adel.), R.D.A., P.A.I.A.S., foundation Director of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, first Waite Professor of Agriculture: an appraisal', Biennial Report of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, 1980-81 (1981), 4-25. Details
• Francki, R. I. B., 'Early work on plant viruses by Dr. R. J. Best at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute', Biennial Report of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, 1976/77 (1977), 38-40. Details
• Schedvin, C. B., 'Environment, Economy and Australian Biology 1890-1939', Historical Studies, 21 (1984), 11-28. Details

Resources

• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-491344. 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_w.html. Details
• Barker, R. M., 'David Eric Symon (1920-2011)', Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 26 (2013), 71-96. Details
• Barker, R.; and Barker, W. R., 'David Symon (1920-2011)', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 151 (2012), 11-9. Details
• Langham, Terry, Waite Arboretum fact sheet: Prof. A. E. V. Richardson 1883 - 1949, Friends of Waite Arboretum, 2016. https://friendsofwaitearboretum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RICHARDSON-Prof-Arnold-E-V-.pdf. Details
• Langham, Terry, Waite Arboretum fact sheet: C. M. Eardley 1910 - 1978, Friends of the Waite Arboretum, 2016. https://friendsofwaitearboretum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EARDLEY-Constance-M-.pdf. Details
• Langham, Terry, Waite Arboretum fact sheet: P. M. Rountree 1911 - 1994, Friends of Waite Arboretum, 2016. https://friendsofwaitearboretum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ROUNTREE-Phyllis-M-.pdf. Details
• Langham, Terry, Waite Arboretum fact sheet: Prof. J. A. Prescott C.B.E. 1890 - 1987, Friends of Waite Arboretum, 2016. https://friendsofwaitearboretum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PRESCOTT-James-H-.pdf. Details
• Langham, Terry, Waite Arboretum fact sheet: H. M. Brooks 1917 - 2008, Friends of the Waite Arboretum, Adelaide, 2016. https://friendsofwaitearboretum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BROOKES-Helen-M-.pdf. Details
• McCann, D. A.; and Batterham, P., 'Australian Genetics: a Brief History', Genetica, 90 (2-3) (1993), 81-114. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01435033. Details
• Radcliffe, John C., 'Melville, James (1908-1984), Agricultural Scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), pp. 150-1. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/melville-james-14964. Details
• Rogers, George E.; and Elliott, William H., 'Robert Henry Symons, 20 March 1934 - 4 October 2006', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 54 (2008), 383-400. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2008.0012. Details
• Rogers, George E.; and Elliott, William H., 'Robert Henry Symons 1934-2006', Historical Records of Australian Science, 19 (2) (2008), 191-213, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR08006. Details