Person
Rogers, Richard Sanders (c. 1861 - 1942)
FLS
- Born
- c. 2 December 1861
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 28 March 1942
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Orchidologist
Summary
Richard Rogers was consulting physician at the (Royal) Adelaide Hospital from 1897 to 1942 and a became a hypnotist of some note. He became a world authority on Australasian orchids describing over 113 new species and three new genera working closely with R. Fiveash and H.M.R. Rupp. Rogers's orchid collections are in the State Herbarium of South Australia.
Details
Chronology
- 1882
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Adelaide
- 1887
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Edinburgh
- 1887 - 1909
- Career position - Honorary Physician, Adelaide Hospital
- 1891
- Education - Master of Surgery (ChM), University of Adelaide
- 1891 - 1938
- Career position - Member, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association
- 1893
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Edinburgh
- 1896 - 1922
- Career position - Member, Board of Management, Adelaide Hospital
- 1897
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Adelaide
- 1897
- Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Adelaide
- 1907 - 1922
- Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1909 - 1942
- Career position - Consulting Physician, Adelaide Hospital
- 1910 - 1940
- Career position - Member, Medical Board of South Australia
- 1913 - 1921
- Career position - Deputy Chairman, Board of Management, Adelaide Hospital
- 1914 - 1919
- Career position - Vice-President, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1914 - 1919
- Career position - Lt Colonel in command of 7th Australian General Hospital, Keswick, South Australia
- 1919 - 1939
- Career position - Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, University of Adelaide
- 1921 - 1922
- Career position - President, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1922 - 1924
- Career position - Vice-President, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1922 - 1936
- Career position - First Superintendent (Visiting), Enfield Receiving House
- 1924 - 1942
- Career position - Fellow, The Linnean Society of London (FLS)
- 1929 - 1931
- Career position - Chairman, Board of the Public library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia
- 1929 - 1936
- Career position - Visiting Superintendent, Northfield Mental Hospital
- 1932
- Career position - President, Section M (Botany), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1932 - 1938
- Career position - President, Medical board of South Australia
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus brachycalyx Blakely: Rogers collected the type specimen
- 1936
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Adelaide
- 1937
- Career event - Member, Australian National Research Council
- 1937
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 1938 - 1942
- Career position - Founding Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1939 - 1942
- Career position - Honorary Consulting Physician to all South Australian mental institutions
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Archival resources
Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide
- Richard Sanders Rogers - Records, 1890 - 1942; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details
Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium
- Richard Sanders Rogers - Records, 1861 - 1942; Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium. Details
National Herbarium, Melbourne
- Richard Sanders Rogers - Records, 1912 - 1937, MSS 4; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Black, J. M., Flora of South Australia., 4 vols (Adelaide: British Science Guild, South Australian Branch, 1922-1929). Details
- McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details
- Rogers, R. S.; illustrated by Rosa Fiveash, An introduction to the study of South Australian orchids (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1911), 63 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Gibberd, Joyce, 'Rogers, Richard Sanders (1861-1942), Orchidologist and Physician' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), p. 443. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110450b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: Dr. R. S. Rogers', Australian Journal of Science, 4 (5) (1942), 154. Details
- Cleland, J. Burton, 'Obituary: Richard Sanders Rogers', Medical Journal of Australia, 1942 (1) (1942), 589-90. Details
- Pescott, Edward E., 'Australian orchidology', The Victorian naturalist, 49 (1932), 196-9. Details
- Rogers, R. S., 'Presidential address: a history of the Society, particularly its relation to other institutions in the state', Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 46 (1922), 615-46. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3281627. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/16867036. Details
- 'Rogers, R S (1861-1942)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-476062. Details
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