Person
Berry, Richard James Arthur (1867 - 1962)
- Born
- 30 May 1867
Upholland, Lancashire, England - Died
- 30 September 1962
Bristol, England - Occupation
- Anatomist and Anthropologist
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
Related entries
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. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070279b.htm. 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
- 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
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 22 October 1993, Last modified: 24 January 2024