Person

Edmunds, Percy J.

Occupation: Teacher

Summary

Percy Edmunds was Assistant Master at Fort St Training School in Sydney from around 1888. He gave public lectures for the Board of Technical Education from 1886, and was Secretary of the Microscopical Section of the Royal Soceity of New South Wales in 1887-89.

Details

Chronology

1888 -: Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

Related Corporate Bodies

Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)
Original [founding] member 1888 -

Published resources

Journal Articles

Edmunds, Percy J., 'On the application of prismatic lenses for making normal-sight magnifying spectacles', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 23 (1889), 64-69, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42720127. Details

Resources

'Edmunds, Percy J.', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473439. Details

Resource Sections

'Edmunds, Percy J.', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001642p.htm. Details

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