Corporate Body

Acclimatisation Society of Victoria (1861 - 1872)

From
1861
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
1872
Functions
Acclimatisation, Association and Society or Membership Organisation
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

The Acclimatisation Society of Victoria replaced the Zoological Society of Victoria in 1861. The Society was responsible for managing the Melbourne Zoological Gardens. In 1872 the Society's name was changed to reflect its broader interests, becoming the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria.

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Timeline

 1857 - 1861 Zoological Society of Victoria
       1861 - 1872 Acclimatisation Society of Victoria
             1872 - 1910 Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria
                   1910 - 1957 Royal Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria

Related People

Published resources

Books

  • Minard, Peter, All things, harmless, useful and ornamental: environmental transformation through species acclimatisation, from colonial Australia to the world (Chapel Hill, NC: University of Carolina Press, 2019), 196 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Farley, Simon, 'Flora and failure: A history of plants and people on the Parkville campus' 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. 6-21, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details

Journal Articles

  • Gillbank, Linden, 'The Origins of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria: Practical Science in the Wake of the Gold Rush', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (3) (1986), 359-374. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9860630359. Details
  • Gillbank, Linden, 'A Tale of Two Animals: Camel and Alpaca - Zoological Shaping of Mueller's Botanic Gardens', Victorian Historical Journal, 67 (1) (1996), 83-102. Details
  • Gillbank, Linden, 'Animal acclimatisation: McCoy and the menagerie the became Melbourne's zoo', The Victorian naturalist, 118 (2001), 297-304. Details
  • Gillbank, Linden, 'Of weeds and other introduced species: Ferdinand Mueller and plant and animal acclimatisation in colonial Victoria', The Victorian naturalist, 124 (2) (2007), 69-78. Details
  • Gillbank, Linden Rae, 'The Acclimatisation Society of Victoria', Victorian historical journal, 51 (4) (1980), 255-70. Details
  • Minard, Peter, 'Assembling Acclimatization: Frederick McCoy, European Ideas, Australian Circumstances', Historical Records of Australian Science, 24 (1) (2013), 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12017. Details
  • Minard, Peter, 'Valuing the native: River Blackfish vs. Rainbow trout in late nineteenth and early-twentieth century Victoria', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 15 (2) (2015), 1-11. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/9941/9829. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

Theses

  • Minard, Peter, 'A history of zoological acclimatisation in Victoria, 1858 - 1900', PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 2014, 319 pp. Details

See also

  • Minard, Peter, 'Salmonid acclimatisation in colonial Victoria: improvement, restoration and recreation 1858-1909', Environment and History, 21 (2) (2015), 177-99. Details

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