Liversidge, Archibald (1846 - 1927)

Summary

Archibald Liversidge was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Sydney 1874-1891 and Professor of Chemistry 1891-1907. He served on the Committee of Management of the Technological, Industrial and Sanitary Museum, Sydney 1880-1889 and was a key figure in the establishment of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1887. Having joined the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1872, Liversidge became heavily involved in its activities, being Secretary form 1874 to 1884, and editing its Journal and proceedings for many years. The Archibald Liversidge Medal has been awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales since 1931, with the awardee presenting a lecture to the Society.

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Chronology

1872 - 1874

Career position - Reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory, University of Sydney

1874 - 1881

Career position - Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Sydney

1874 - 1884

Career position - Honorary Secretary, Royal Society of New South Wales

1875 - 1876

Career position - Member of Council, Linnean Society of New South Wales

1878 - 1904

Career position - Member of the Senate, University of Sydney

1879 - 1907

Career position - Inaugural Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney

1880 - 1889

Career position - Member, Committee of Management, Technological, Industrial and Sanitary Museum, Sydney

1881 - 1891

Career position - Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, University of Sydney

1882 - 1927

Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)

1885 - 1889

Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales

1886 - 1888

Career position - Honorary Secretary, Royal Society of New South Wales

1888 -

Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1888 - 1909

Career position - Founding Secretary, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1891 - 1907

Career position - Professor of Chemistry, University of Sydney

1892

Career event - Founded School of Mines, University of Sydney

1895 - 1898

Career position - President, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1900

Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales

1909

Life event - Returned to the United Kingdom

1909 - 1912

Career position - Vice-President, Society of Chemical Industry, United Kingdom

1910 - 1913

Career position - Vice-President, Chemical Society, United Kingdom

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Angus & Robertson - Records, 1824 - 1933, ML MSS 314; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Baldwin Spencer - Records, 1880 - 1929, ML MSS 29; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Clarke Family Papers - Records, 1789 - 1879, ML MSS 139; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Powerhouse Museum

• Archibald Liversidge - Records, 1882 - 1923, MRS 1, 2, 4, 202, 53, 113 ....; Powerhouse Museum. Details

Royal Society of New South Wales

• Archibald Liversidge - Records, 1869; Royal Society of New South Wales. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

• Archibald Liversidge - Records, 1874 - 1907, P 8; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Australasian Science, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/journal.htm. Details
• Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Articles

• Newell, Jennifer and Sutherland, Denise, 'Scientists and Colonists', Australasian Science, Summer (1997), http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_colonists.htm. Details

Books

• Liversidge, Archibald, The Minerals of New South Wales, Etc. (London: Trübner & Co., 1888), (viii) + 326 + 2 + map pp. Details
• Macleod, Roy, Archibald Liversidge, FRS: imperial science under the souther cross (Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales and University of Sydney University Press, 2009), 637 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Le Fevre, R.J.W., 'The Establishment of Chemistry within Australian Science' in A Century of Scientific Progress (Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales, 1961). Details
• Macleod, Roy, 'Colonial Science Under the Southern Cross: Archibald Liversidge, FRS, and the Shaping of Anglo-Australian Science' in Science Across the European Empires, 1800-1950, Benedikt Stuchtey, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press/German Historical Institute, 2005), pp. 175-213. Details
• 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
• Macleod, Roy M., 'Archibald Liversidge, 1846-1927' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
• Mellor, D. P., 'Liversidge, Archibald (1846-1927), scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 93-94. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050110b.htm. Details

Conference Proceedings

• Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science edited by Liversidge, A,; and Etheridge, Robert (Sydney: Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1889), i-xxxvi, 1-659, I-XLIX pp, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53771. Details
• Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science edited by Liversidge, A. (Sydney: Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1898), i-lii, 1-1161 pp, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/52763. Details

Journal Articles

• Baker, T. H., 'Archibald Liversidge: a Giant of Australian Science', Chemistry in Australia, 64 (9) (1997), 16-19. Details
• Black, Professor; Kernot, Professor W.C.; Leibius, Dr. C.A.; Liversidge, Professor A.; Masson, Professor Orme, Rennie, Professor, Cox, Mrs. S.H.; Secretary, 'Report of Committee No. 14 : The State and progress of Chemical Science in Australia, with Special Reference to Gold and Silver Appliances Used in the Colonies and Elsewhere', Report of the second meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 2 (1890), 283-292, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14563261. Details
• Butt, C. R. M.; and Timms, N. E., 'The Liversidge Nugget Collection: a New Look at Some Old Gold', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58 (7) (2011), 777-91. Details
• David, T. W. E., 'Archibald Liversidge', Journal of the Chemical Society (1938), 589. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Deniliquin Meteorite', Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 6 (1872), 97-103. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On supersaturated saline solutions', Philosophical Magazine (1873), 67-76. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Note on the Bingera Diamond District', Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 7 (1873), 91-101. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Nickel Minerals from New Caledonia', Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 8 (1874), 75-80. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Iron Ore and Coal Deposits from Wallerawang, New South Wales', Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 8 (1874), 81-91. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Note on a New Mineral from New Caledonia', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 29 (1874), 212-213. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Note on a New Mineral from New Caledonia', Journal of the Chemical Society, London, 27 (1874), 613-615. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Note on the Bingera diamond-fields ', Philosophical Magazine (1875), 480-481. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Minerals of New South Wales', Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 9 (1875), 154-215. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Examples of Pseudo-Crystallization ', Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 9 (1875), 152-153. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Formation of Moss Gold and Silver', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 10 (1876), 125-134. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On a Remarkable Example of Contorted Shale', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 10 (1876), 241-242. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Disease of Sugar Cane, Queensland', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 34 (1876), 272. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Fossiliferous Siliceous Deposit, Richmond River (one plate), and the so-called Meerschaum from the Richmond River', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 10 (1876), 237-240. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Third report to the Sydney City and suburban Sewage and health Board upon the Quality of the Sydney City and Suburban Water Supply', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 35 (1877), 195. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Ocurrence of Chalk in the New Britain Group', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 11 (1877), 85-91. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The New Nickel Minerals from New Caledonia', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 36 (1877), 9. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Formation of Moss Gold and Silver', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 35 (1877), 68-71. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Water form a Hot Spring, New Britain', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 42 (1880), 324. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Alkaloid from Piturie', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 123-132. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Water from a Hot Spring, Fiji Islands', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 42 (1880), 324-325. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Water from a Hot Spring, New Britain', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 145. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Water from a Hot Spring, Fiji Islands', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 147-148. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Upon the Composition of Some New South Wales Coals', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 181-212. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Action of Sea-Water Upon Cast-Iron', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 149-154. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Composition of Some Wood Enclosed in Basalt', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 155-157. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Notes upon some Minerals from New Caledonia', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 227-246. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On The Composition of Some Coral Limestones, &c., from the South Sea Islands', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 159-162. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On Some New South Wales Minerals', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 (1880), 213-225. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Alkaloid from Piturie (paper read before the Royal Society of NSW, Nov., 1880)', Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions (1881), 815-818. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Alkaloid from Piturie', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 43 (1881), 124-126, 138-140. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Action of Sea Water upon Cast-Iron', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 43 (1881), 121-123. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Analyses of Queensland Soils', Journal of the Chemical Society, London, 39 (1881), 61-63. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Chemical Composition of Certain Rocks, New South Wales, &c.', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 16 (1882), 39-46. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Rocks from New Britain and New Ireland (Preliminary Notice)', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 16 (1882), 47-51. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Bingera Meteorite, New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 16 (1882), 35-37. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Deniliquin or Barrata Meteorite', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 16 (1882), 31-33. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Minerals on New South Wales (a review of)', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 47 (1883), 82-83. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On Some New South Wales Minerals', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 18 (1884), 43-48 (2 plates). Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Notes on Some New South Wales Silver and Other Minerals', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 20 (1886), 231-233. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Notes on Some Rocks and Minerals from New Guinea, & etc.', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 20 (1886), 227-230. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Composition of Some Pumice and Lava from the Pacific', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 20 (1886), 235-239. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Metallic Meteorite, Queensland', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 20 (1886), 73. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'President's Address', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 20 (1886), 1-41. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Notes on Some New South Wales Minerals. ( Note No. 5)', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 22 (1888), 362-366. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Notes on the Thunda Meteorite, Queensland', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 182, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813270. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Notes on Some Australian Minerals', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 182, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813270. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Proposed Chemical Laboratory, at the University of Sydney', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 168-182, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813256. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Removal of Gold from Suspension and Solution by Fungoid Growths', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 62 (1890), 277-279, 290-291. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Removal of Gold from Suspension and Solution by Fungoid Growths', Report of the second meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 2 (1890), 399-407, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14563377. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Australian Meteorites', Report of the second meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 2 (1890), 387-388, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14563365. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Notes on Some Hot Spring Waters', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 62 (1890), 264-265. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Notes on Some Hot Spring Waters', Report of the second meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 2 (1890), 388-394, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14563366. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'President's address', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 24 (1890), 1-38. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Australian Meteorites', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 62 (1890), 267. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On Some New South Wales and other Minerals', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 25 (1891), 234-241. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Origin of Gold Nuggets', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 27 (1893), 303-343. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'A Combination Laboratory Lamp, Retort, and Filter Stand', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 27 (1893), 347-348. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Crystallization of Gold in Hexagonal Forms', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 27 (1893), 343-346. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Condition of Gold in Quartz and Calcite Veins', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 27 (1893), 299-303. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On Iron Rust Possessing Magnetic Properties', Report of the fourth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 4 (1893), 302-320, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15558765. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Presence of Magnetite in Certain Minerals and Rocks', Report of the fourth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 4 (1893), 296-302, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15558759. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Gold Moire-Metallique', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 27 (1893), 346-347. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Origin of Moss Gold', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 27 (1893), 287-298. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Preliminary Note on the Occurrence of Gold in the Hawkesbury Rocks about Sydney', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 28 (1894), 185-188. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Boleite, Nantokite, Kerargyrite,, and Cuprite from Broken Hill, N.S. Wales', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 28 (1894), 94-98. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Crystallisation of Gold in Hexagonal Forms', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 69 (1894), 172-173. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Condition of Gold in Quartz and Calcite Veins', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 69 (1894), 162-163. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Gold Moire-Metallique', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 69 (1894), 210. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'A Combination Laboratory Lamp, Retort, and Filter Stand', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 69 (1894), 219. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Structure of Gold Nuggets', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 70 (1894), 199. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Origin of Gold Nuggets, contd. in Chem. News, 1894, 70, p. 6', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 69 (1894), 260-262, 267-268, 281-283, 296-298, 303-304. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Origin of Gold Nuggets, contd. from Chem. News, 1894, 69, p. 304', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 70 (1894), 6-8, 21-22. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Schedules for use of students of mineralogy', Report of the fifth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 5 (1894), 408-9. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15362616. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Origin of Moss Gold', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 69 (1894), 152-155. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Variation in the Amount of Free and Albumenoid Ammonia in Waters, on Keeping', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 71 (1895), 225-226, 237, 249. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Amount of Gold and Silver in Sea-Water', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 29 (1895), 335-349. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On Some New South Wales and other Minerals (Note 7)', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 29 (1895), 316-325. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Abbreviated names for certain crystal forms', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 320, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884194. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Models to show the axes of crystals', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 321, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884211. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Variation in the Amount of Free and Albuminoid Ammonia in Waters, on Keeping', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 235-239, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884091. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Internal Structure of Gold Nuggets', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 240, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884096. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Crystallised Carbon Dioxide', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 240, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884096. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Contributions to the Bibliography of Gold', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 240-256, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884096. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Crystallized Carbon Dioxide', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 71 (1895), 152. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Corrosion of Aluminium', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 71 (1895), 134. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Abbreviated Names for Certain Crystal Forms', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 71 (1895), 140-141. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Experiments Upon the Porosity of Plasters and Cements', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 737-740, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884741. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Corrosion of Aluminium', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 239-240, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884095. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Removal of Silver and Gold from Sea-Water by Muntz Metal Sheathing', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 29 (1895), 350-366. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On Some New South Wales and other Minerals', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 74 (1896), 113-116. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Amount of Gold and Silver in Sea-Water', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 74 (1896), 146-7, 160-1,166-8. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Removal of Silver and Gold from Sea-Water by Muntz Metal Sheathing', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 74 (1896), 182-4, 191-4. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Crystalline Structure of Gold and Platinum Nuggets and Gold Ingots', Journal of the Chemical Society, London, 71 (1897), 1125-1131. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Presence of Gold in Natural Saline Deposits and Marine Plants', Journal of the Chemical Society, London, 71 (1897), 298-299. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Crystalline Structure of Gold and Platinum Nuggets and Gold Ingots', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 31 (1897), 70-79. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Presidential address, Seventh meeting of AAAS, 1898', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 1-53, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15377935. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'Crystallised Carbon Dioxide', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 77 (1898), 216. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'On the Corrosion of Aluminium', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 77 (1898), 207. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Blue Pigment in Coral (Heliopora Coerulea) and other Animal Organisms', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 32 (1898), 256-268. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The origin of gold nuggets', The Australian Mining Standard, Special Edition (1899), 137-141. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'The Blue Pigment in Coral (Heliopora coerulea) and other Animal Organisms', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 80 (1899), 29-31, 41-43. Details
• Liversidge, Archibald, 'obituary of Archibald Liversidge in presidential address by J. Douglas Stewart', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 62 (1928), 8-10. Details
• Macleod, Roy and Branagan, David, 'The Architect and the Statesman: Archibald Liversidge, Edgeworth David and the Spirit of Science in Sydney, 1874-1934', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 143 (3/4) (2010), 3-17. Details
• Macleod, Roy M., 'Gold from the Sea: Archibald Liversidge, FRS and the Chemical Prospectors', Ambix, 35 (1988), 53-64. Details
• Mellor, D.P., 'Founders of Australian Chemistry. Archibald Liversidge', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, 24 (August) (1957), 415-421. Details
• Rücker, Arthur, 'Note on the polarity of magnetic rocks', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 94, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813182. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/27838887. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4786404. Details
• Home, R. W.; Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M.; Voigt, J.H.; and Wells, M. [eds], The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 2023, https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/search/?correspondent=Archibald+Liversidge. Details
• Early Chemists of Sydney, 2006, http://members.optusnet.com.au/jph8524/McKern.htm. Details
• 'Liversidge, Archibald (1846-1927)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-525189. Details

Reviews

• MacLeod, Roy, Archibald Liversidge, FRS: imperial science under the souther cross (2009)
  Rae, Ian D., Historical Records of Australian Science, 21 (2), (2010), 283-5, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR10012. Details

See also

• Elkin, A. P., 'Centenary oration: the challenge to science, 1866; the challenge of science, 1966, part 1', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 100 (3/4) (1966), 105-18. Details
• Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details