Berry, Richard James Arthur (1867 - 1962)

Summary

Richard Berry was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne 1905-1929. He wrote several books, including "Practical Anatomy" in 1914, which remained the text for Melbourne students for 25 years.

Details

Educated at Edinburgh (MB, ChM 1891, MD 1894). FRCS (Edinburgh). MD, (ad. eund.), University of Melbourne 1906. Apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers in Liverpool for several years; house-surgeon, Royal Infirmary 1891-95; lecturer in anatomy, school of medicine, Royal Colleges 1896-1905; Professor of Anatomy, University of Melbourne, 1906-29; consulting psychiatrist to the Melbourne and children's hospitals; director of medical services, Stoke Park Colony, Bristol, England 1929-40. Designed a new building for the Department of Anatomy, University of Melbourne, opened in 1923 and known as 'Berry's Folly' because of its size.

Chronology

1914

Career position - Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section H (Anthropology), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting

1921 -

Career position - Foundation Councillor (Anthropology), Australian National Research Council

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Published resources

Books

• Pybus, Cassandra, A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2024), 318 pp. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Cassandra-Pybus-Very-Secret-Trade-9781761066344. Pages 239-254, 263, 278. Details
• Russell, K. F., The Melbourne Medical School 1862-1962 (Melbourne: 1977). Details

Book Sections

• Jones, Ross L., 'Human remains' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 95-106. https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
• Russell, K. F., 'Berry, Richard James Arthur (1867-1962), anatomist, neurologist and anthropologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 276-277. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/berry-richard-james-arthur-5220. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituaries: Arthur Hamilton Tebbutt, Adolph Bolliger, Richard James Arthur Berry and William Norman Little', Medical Journal of Australia, 1 (12) (1963), 444-448. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940', Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, 10 (2001), 153-172, https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/informit.497703739503377. Details
• Cawte, Mary, 'Craniometry and Eugenics in Australia: R. J. A. Berry and the Quest for Social Efficiency', Historical Studies, 22 (86) (1986), 35-53. Details
• Sunderland, Sydney, 'The Melbourne Medical School and some of Its "characters" 1931 - 1975', Chiron: journal of the University of Melbourne Medical Society, 2 (2) (1992), 45-52. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19871279. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/31802543. Details
• 'Berry, R J A (1867-1962)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-626462. Details

See also

• Jones, Ross L. ; Waghorne, James; and Langton, Marcia, 'Introduction' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. xiii-xxix, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
• Pearn, John Hemsley, A doctor in the garden: nomen medici in botanicis: Australian flora and the world of medicine (Herston, Qld: Amphion Press, 2001), 497 pp. Details