Person

Pulleine, Robert Henry (1869 - 1935)

Born
7 June 1869
Picton, New Zealand
Died
13 June 1935
South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Physician and Naturalist

Summary

Robert Pulleine was a consultant physician specialising in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He practised in Adelaide and was part-owner of the Walwa Hospital. Pulleine was a keen naturalist and something of a polymath, being interested in botany, anthropology, marine biology, history and entomology. He was particularly interested in spiders and made a special study of trapdoor spiders. His discoveries included three new shells, including Chlamys pulleineanus. Six other species of animals and plants were named for him including Carpobrotus pulleinei (Aizoaceae). Pulleine was an enthusiastic participant in scientific organisations in South Australia, being president of a number of them including the Royal Society of South Australia and the Anthropological Society of South Australia. He was an inaugural Member of the Board of Anthropological Research and participated in four of the Board's annual field expeditions.

Details

Chronology

1881
Life event - Arrived in Australia
1885 - 1887
Career event - Worked at Public Library of South Australia
1888 - 1891
Career position - Teacher, Adelaide Collegiate School
1898
Education - MB ChM, University of Adelaide and, University of Sydney
1899
Career position - Physician, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
1900 - 1905
Career event - In private practice in Gympie, Queensland
1906 - 1907
Career event - Studied eye, ear, nose and throat in Germany and United Kingdom
1907 - ?
Career position - In private practice in Adelaide
1909 - 1912
Career position - Secretary, Royal Society of South Australia
1911
Career position - Chairman, Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia
1923 - 1924
Career position - President, Royal Society of South Australia
1925 - 1930
Career position - Secretary, Royal Society of South Australia
1926 - ?
Career position - Foundation Member, Board of Anthropological Research
1926
Career position - Foundation President, Anthropological Society of South Australia
1927 - 1928
Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association
1928
Career position - President, Section F (Anthropology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Hicks, Neville; McIntosh, Helen, 'Pulleine, Robert Henry (1869-1935), Physician and Naturalist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 306-307. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110316b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Cleland, J Burton, ' Obituary: Robert Henry Pulleine', Medical Journal of Australia, 2 (11) (1935), 362-5. Details
  • Pulleine, R. H., 'The Botanical Colonisation of the Adelaide Plains', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, 35 (1935). Details
  • Pulleine, R.; Woollard, H.H., 'Physiology and mental observations on the Australian Aborigines', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 54 (1930), 62-75, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41567378. Details

Resources

Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn

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