Mackerras, Ian Murray (1898 - 1980)

Summary

Ian Mackerras was Director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane 1947-1961, and Research Fellow, CSIRO, Canberra 1961-1974.

Details

Chronology

1925 - 1927

Award - Linnean Macleay Fellowship (Zoology), for study at the University of Sydney

1928

Career event - Elected Associate Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council

1947 - 1961

Career position - Director, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia

1954 - 1980

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1961 - 1974

Career position - Research Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia

1965 - 1967

Career Position - President, Australian Entomological Society

1969 - 1980

Award - Honorary Member, Australian Entomological Society

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Ian Murray Mackerras - Records, 1886 - 1980, MS 122; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

CSIRO Archives, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

• Eleventh Monthly Conference of Senior Officers. October 1st and 2nd, 1929 - Minute of Meeting, 2 October 1929, Copy (pdf) held by the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation; Division of Economic Entomology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; Tillyard, Robin John (1881 - 1937); CSIRO Archives, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Details
• Personal History File: Miss Fuller, 1929 - 1938, CSA Series 3 File PH/FUL/1; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; CSIRO Archives, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne, 2012, https://www.eoas.info/exhibitions/basser/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Fuller, M. E., The insect inhabitants of carrion : a study in animal ecology (Melbourne: H. J. Green for Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1934), 62 pp, https://doi.org/10.25919/dbrb-zx18. Details

Book Sections

• Williams, Lesley, 'Mackerras, Ian Murray (1898-1980) and Josephine Mackerras (1896-1971), medical scientists' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 248-250. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mackerras-ian-murray-10992. Details

Journal Articles

• Chadwick, C. E.; Mackerras, I. M., 'Tribute to G. H. Hardy. 1. His Career and Publications. 2. Review of the Scientific Work of G. H. Hardy', Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia (New South Wales Branch), 3 (1966), 48-57. Details
• Doherty, Ralph L., 'The Bancroft tradition in infectious desease research in Queensland, part 1', Medical Journal of Australia, 1978, v.2 (2 December) (1978), 560-3. Details
• Doherty, Ralph L., 'The Bancroft tradition in infectious desease research in Queensland, part 2', Medical Journal of Australia, 2 (1978), 591-4. Details
• Howie-Willis, Ian, 'Australian malariology during World War II (part 3 of "Pioneers of Australian military malariology"', Journal of Military and Veteran's History, 25 (2) (2017), 46-68. Details
• Mackerras, I., 'A. J. Turner Memorial Address', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 60 (1948), 69-79. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Gilruth's Part in Sheep Blowfly Research', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 116-118. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Alfred Jefferis Turner and Amateur Entomology in Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, lx (7) (1948), 69-88. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'A letter from the President', Australian Entomological Society news bulletin, 1 (1965), 3-4. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Alexander John Nicholson (1895-1969)', Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia (N.S.W.), 6 (1969), 57-60. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Francis Ratcliffe (1904-1970): Obituary', Search, 2 (3) (1971), 74-75. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Alexander John Nicholson', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (1) (1971), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9710210066. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Edward Holbrook Derrick', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (1) (1979), 82-102. https://www.publish.csiro.au/hr/HR9790410082. Details
• MacKerras, I. M.; and MacKerras, M. J., 'Problems of Parasitology and Entomology in Australia. Report Prepared for the Indian Ocean Science Congress', Australian Journal of Science, 15 (1953), 183-189. Details
• Mackerras, I. M.; and Marks, Elizabeth N., 'The Bancrofts: a century of scientific endeavour [includes lists of publications]', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 84 (1) (1973), 1-34. Details
• Marks, E. N.; and Mackerras, I. M., 'Evolution of a National Entomological Society in Australia', Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 11 (2) (1972), 81-90. Details
• Norris, K. R., 'Ian Murray Mackerras 1898-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2) (1981), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520098. Details
• Schedvin, C. B., 'Environment, Economy and Australian Biology 1890-1939', Historical Studies, 21 (1984), 11-28. Details

Reports

• Tillyard, R.J., The work of the Division of Economic Entomology for the year 1928-29 (Melbourne: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia), 1929), 19 pp. https://doi.org/10.25919/2k6y-h875. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/311428180. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3147313. Details
• CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters, 'NAA: B2458, 171801', B2458 Army Personnel Files, multiple number series, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=4342326. Details
• 'Mackerras, Ian Murray (1898-1980)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468644. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Mackerras, Ian Murray - Ms 122', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms122.html. Details
• Norris, K. R., 'Ian Murray Mackerras 1898-1980', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 1981, https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/ian-murray-mackerras-1898-1980. Details
• Ward, C., 'Ian Murray Mackerras', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Mackerras-Ian-Murray. Details

Theses

• Alvarez, Amaya Jane, 'Writing about Women in the History of Science: a Study of Women at the CSIR 1930-1950', Minerva-Access, Digitised Collections, MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1993, vi, 96 leaves, bound ; 31 cm pp. https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/items/76988996-82dc-569a-bc97-e4f20bddd219. Details

See also

• Howie-Willis, Ian, An unending war: the Australian Army's struggle against malaria 1885 - 2015 (Newport (N.S.W.): Big Sky Publishing, 2016), 348 pp. Details
• Spencer, Margaret, Malaria: the Australian Experience, 1843-1991 (Townsville: Australian College of Tropical Medicine, 1994), 213 pp. Details
• Sprent, J. F. A., 'Ronald Harry Wharton 1923-83', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 293-301. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620293. Details