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
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
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
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21341500. Details
- 'Pulleine, R H (1869-1935)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-557575. Details
Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 25 February 2020