Morrison, Frank Richard (1895 - 1967)

Summary

Frank Morrison joined the Technological Museum, Sydney, in 1918 after four years with the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board and two with the Australian Imperial Force. He remained there for 42 years, retiring in 1960 as Director of the Museum's successor, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. Much of his research, with Museum colleagues Henry Smith and Arthur Penfold, was into the economic potential of Australia's natural resources, particularly plants and their essential oils. Morrison published nearly 50 papers, many in association with Penfold. President of the Royal Society of New South Wales from 1950 to 1951, Morrison was awarded the Society's Medal in 1960.

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Chronology

1912 - 1916

Career position - Assistant, Chemical Laboratory, Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board

1916 - 1918

Career position - Served with the Australian Imperial Force

1918 - 1946

Career position - Assistant Chemist, Technological Museum, Sydney

1922

Education - Diploma of Chemistry, Sydney Technological College

1931

Career position - President, Sydney Technological College Chemical Society

1946 - 1949

Career position - Economic Chemist, Technological Museum

1949 - 1950

Career position - Deputy Director, Technological Museum

1950 - 1951

Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales

1950 - 1955

Career position - Deputy Director, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney

1955

Career position - President, Sydney Technological College Chemical Society

1955 - 1960

Career position - Director, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

1958

Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal

1960

Life event - Retired

Related entries

Archival resources

Powerhouse Museum

• Frank Richard Morrison - Records, 1923 - 1967, PM 122, MRS 225; Powerhouse Museum. 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

• Penfold, A. R. and Morrison, F. R., Commercial Eucalyptus oils (Sydney: Technological Museum, 1951), 35 pp. Details
• Penfold, A. R.; and Morrison, F. R., Guide to the extraction of Eucalyptus oil in the field (Sydney, NSW: Technological Museum, 1945), 15 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Holland, H. G.; Mckern, H.H.G., 'Morrison, Frank Richard (1895-1967), chemist and museum director' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 417-418. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/morrison-frank-richard-11176. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituaries: Frank Richard Morrison; Herbert Minchin Nicholls', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 35 (2) (1968), 36. Details
• 'Obituaries [of Fellows]', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 102 (1) (1969), 96-97, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/246883#page/4/mode/1up. Details
• Morrison, F. R., 'Presidential address', Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 85 (1) (1952), 1-12, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/173910#page/41/mode/1up. Details
• Morrison, F. R., 'Scientific Societies in Australia: a Brief Outline of the Founding and Development of the University of New South Wales Chemical Society', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, 27 (1960), 251-259. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24035789. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93870984. Details
• 'Morrison, F R (1895-1967)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-587010. Details

See also

• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details