Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - )

Summary

The Royal Society of Victoria had its origin in two independent societies, the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science and the Philosophical Society of Victoria, which were founded in 1854 and united in the following year as the Philosophical Institute of Victoria. The name was changed to The Royal Society of Victoria late in 1859 and the first meeting was held on 21 December that year. Its aim is to contribute to the advancement of science and, through science, to the good of the Victorian community.

Related entries

Timeline

 1854 - 1855 Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science
 1854 - 1855 Philosophical Society of Victoria
       1855 - 1859 Philosophical Institute of Victoria
             1859 - Royal Society of Victoria

Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• James Alexander Smith - Papers, 1878 - 1933, MS 11370; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
• Royal Society of Victoria - Records, 1854 - 1988, MS 11663; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Beer, Gavin De, Darwin and Australia. in The Evolution of Living Organisms. A Symposium to Mark the Centenary of Darwin's 'Origin of Species' and of the Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne, December 1959. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962). Details
• Murphy, Sean, The Cranbourne meteorite (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly publishing, 2023), 164 pp. Details

Book Sections

• 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

Journal Articles

• Aston, Helen, 'Publication Dates of Early Scientific Journals in Victoria', Muelleria, 5 (1984), 281-288. Details
• Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 'The Burke and Wills Expedition and the Royal Society of Victoria', Historical Studies, 40 (May) (1963). Details
• Gill, E. D., 'Scientific Societies in Australia. The Royal Society of Victoria', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, 28 (1961), 129-131. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'Royal Society of Victoria - Approaching Centenary', Australian Journal of Science, 19 (4) (1957), 144-145. Details
• Home, R. W., 'Ferdinand Mueller and the Royal Society of Victoria', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 127 (1) (2015), 105-9, https://doi.org/10.1071/RS15012. Details
• Pescott, R. T. M., 'The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 73 (1961), 1-40. Details
• Phoenix, Dave, 'Burke and Wills: an Overview of the Expedition, its Preparation, Planning and Outcomes', Queensland History Journal, 21 (8) (2012), 497-509. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1031402. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/147091054. Details
• The Royal Society of Victoria Guide to Records, with La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/asrs/asrs.htm. Details
• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/smv.html. Details
• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-522467. Details

Resource Sections

• Aston, Helen, 'Publication Dates of Early Scientific Journals in Victoria', in Science and the making of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/091.html. Details
• Hills, E. S., 'Royal Society of Victoria - Approaching Centenary', in Science and the making of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/059.html. Details
• Martin, F.; and V., 'Alphabetical List of Members 1854-1872, Compiled From the List of Members in the Proceedings', in Science and the making of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/150.html. Details
• Pescott, R. T. M., 'The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959', in Science and the making of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/003.html. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_r.html. 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
• Lomb, Nick, 'Australian solar eclipse expeditions: the voyage to Cape York in 1871', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 19 (1) (2016), 79-95. Details
• McMullen, Gabrielle, 'Noted colonial German scientists and their contexts', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 127 (1) (2015), 9-16, https://doi.org/10.1071/RS15001. Details
• Smith, James, ed., The Cyclopedia of Victoria: an historical and commercial review: descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress (Melbourne: Cyclopedia Co, 1903-1905), vol.1: 618 pp, vol.2: 563 pp, vol.3: 643 pp. "The Royal Society of Victoria" Vol.2 p.73. Details