Person

Gilruth, John Anderson (1871 - 1937)

Born
17 February 1871
Auchmithie, Forfarshire, Scotland
Died
4 March 1937
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Veterinary scientist and Bacteriologist

Summary

John Gilruth was Professor of Veterinary Pathology and Director of the Veterinary Research Institute, University of Melbourne from 1908. He was Administrator of the Northern Territory 1912-1920 and later Chief of the Division of Animal Health, CSIR. Earlier, from 1893, Gilruth was a government veterinary surgeon in New Zealand becoming Chief Veterinarian and Bacteriologist in 1897.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1921 -
Career position - Foundation Councillor (Veterinary Science), Australian National Research Council
1937
Career position - President, Section L (Veterinary Science), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

Related Awards

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • John Anderson Gilruth - Records, 1890 - 1954, MS 007; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • In the Public Interest (television program) - Transcripts, July 1973, MS 3794; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Clunies Ross, I., John Anderson Gilruth: the influence of his life and work on the development of the Livestock Industries of the Commonwealth (Brisbane: Queensland University Press, 1956). Details
  • Egan, Ted, Gilruth: a complex man John Anderson Gilruth (Alice Springs: Ted Egan Enterprises, 2017), 414 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Powell, Alan, 'Gilruth, John Anderson (1871-1937), veterinary scientist and adminstrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 17-19. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090017b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'John Anderson Gilruth', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 94-103. Details
  • 'Gilruth's Work in New Zealand, 1893-1908', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 104-107. Details
  • Albiston, H.E., 'Selected Bibliography of Scientific Papers by Dr. J. A. Gilruth', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 118-120. Details
  • Angus, Beverley M., 'John Anderson Gilruth: first Administrator of the Northern Territory and veterinarian extraordinaire', Northern Perspective, 18 (1) (1995), 42-52. Details
  • Bull, L. B., 'Gilruth as a Teacher', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 110-112. Details
  • Francis, J., 'Dr J. A. Gilruth and Sir Ian Clunies Ross - Veterinary Science in Australia 1952-84: Some Personal Reflections', Australian Veterinary Journal, 61 (1984), 372-374. Details
  • Gilruth, J. A., 'Presidential address: Recent contributions to veterinary science by Australian and New Zealand workers [Section L - Veterinary Science]', Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Auckland meeting, January, 1937 (1937), 289-306. Details
  • Mackerras, I. M., 'Gilruth's Part in Sheep Blowfly Research', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 116-118. Details
  • Schedvin, C. B., 'Environment, Economy and Australian Biology 1890-1939', Historical Studies, 21 (1984), 11-28. Details
  • Sweet, Georgina, 'Gilruth and the Melbourne University Veterinary School and the Research Institute. 1909-1912', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 108-110. Details
  • Turner, A. W., 'Gilruth's Work with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1929-1936', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 112-115. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018

EOAS ID: biogs/P000441b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000441b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260