Corporate Body

Adelaide Philosophical Society (1853 - 1880)

From
10 January 1853
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
To
1880
Functions
Association, Natural history and Society or Membership Organisation
Alternative Names
  • Philosophical Society of Adelaide (Also known as)
Location
South Australia, Australia

Summary

The Adelaide Philosophical Society was founded in January 1853 for the purpose of providing means of association between people of similar interests, and to record information on natural phenomena occurring in the colony before it was lost to the records of science. One of the Society's objects was to promote the establishment of a museum to illustrate the natural history of the colony. There was a close association between the Society and the colony's museum, the South Australian Institute, founded in 1856. The year 1876, when Ralph Tate became a Member, marked a revival of the Society. Its journal, the Transactions and proceedings and report, was published in two volumes between 1877 and 1879. On being granted a Royal warrant, the Society became the Royal Society of South Australia in1880: the new Society continued to publish the Transactions. Other than Benjamin Babbage (President 1855) and Ralph Tate (1878 - 1880), all Presidents of the Society were the Governors of South Australia.

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Governors of South Australia who served terms as President of the Society included: Henry Young (1853 - 1854); Richard MacDonnell (1856 - 1861); Dominic Daly (1862 - 1868); James Ferguson (1869 - 1872); Anthony Musgrave (1873 - 1876); and William Jervois (1877).

Timeline

 1853 - 1880 Adelaide Philosophical Society
       1880 - Royal Society of South Australia

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Published resources

Journal Articles

  • Adelaide Philosophical Society, 'List of Members, September 30th, 1879', Transactions and proceedings and report of the Adelaide Philosophical Society, 2 (1879), iv-vi. Details
  • Deveson, E. D., 'The Adelaide Philosophical Society and the Early Accommodation of the Darwin-Wallace Theory of Natural Selection', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 137 (2013), 151-67. Details
  • Madigan, C.T., 'The Past, Present and Future of the Society, and its Relations to the Welfare and Progress of the State.', Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, lx (1936), i-xv. Details
  • Tate, Ralph, 'Anniversary address', Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia, 1 (1878), 11-47. Details
  • Tate, Ralph, 'Anniversary address of the President', Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 3 (1880), xxxix-xliv. Details

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