Edited Book

Author

Fenner, Frank

Title

History of Microbiology in Australia

Imprint

Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne, 1990, 624 pp

Subject

History of Australian Science - General

Description

Contents:
1. The Early Days of Microbiology in Australia.
2. Teaching Institutions:
- The Universities;
- The Colleges of Advanced Education.
3. Research Institutes and CSIRO:
- The Research Institutes;
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
4. Diagnostic Laboratories and the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories:
- Medical Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratories;
- Veterinary Microbiology Laboratories;
- Plant Pathology Laboratories;
- The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories.
5. Australian Contributions to Bacteriology:
- Basic Bacteriology;
- Medical Bacteriology;
- Small Cell-Dependent Prokaryotes;
- Basic Bacteriology;
- Veterinary Bacteriology;
- Plant Bacteriology;
- Soil Bacteriology;
- Geomicrobiology;
- Water Microbiology.
6. Australian Contributions to Virology:
- General Contributions to Virology;
- Animal Viruses;
- Plant Viruses;
- Bacteriophages.
7. Australian Contributions to Mycology:
- Basic Mycology;
- Medical Mycology;
- Veterinary Mycology;
- Plant and Soil Mycology;
- Fungal Taxonomy.
8. Australian Contributions to Protozoology:
- Medical Protozoology;
- Veterinary Protozoology.
9. Industrial Microbiology:
- Microbiological Aspects of Water Use;
- Food and Beverage Microbiology;
- Antibiotics and Other Products of Fermentation;
- Vaccines and Diagnostic Reagents.
10. National Activities Concerned with Microbiology:
- The Australian Society for Microbiology;
- Regulatory and Advisory Bodies;
- Reference Laboratories and WHO Collaborating Centres;
- Australian Federation of Culture Collections;
- Communicable Diseases Intelligence;
- Microbiology in the Australian Army in the Two World Wars.
11. International Activities Concerned with Microbiology:
- The International Union of Microbiological Societies;
- Bacterial Taxonomy;
- Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Viruses;
- Fungal Taxonomy and Other International Activities in Mycology;
- International Culture Collection Organization;
- International Newsletters Produced in Australia.

Obituary Notices and Biographical Memoirs.
Index of Names.
Subject Index.

Abstract

List of obituary notices and biographic memoirs, includes:
ADAM, David Bonar (1900-1951).
ALLEN, Harry Brookes (1854-1926).
ANDERSON, Kevin Francis (1925-73).
ANDERSON, Phyllis Margery (1901-1957).
BAAS BECKING, Laurens Gerhard Marinus (1895-1963).
BACKHOUSE, Thomas Clive (1895-1986).
BAILEY, Frederick Manson (1827-1915).
BANCROFT, Joseph (1836-1894).
BANCROFT, Thomas Lane (1860-1933).
BEATON, Carolyn Peta (1952-1987).
BEATON, Gordon William (1911-1988).
BENNETTS, Harold William (1898-1970).
BLACK, Robert Hughes (1917-1988).
BORTHWICK, Thomas (1860-1924).
BREINL, Anton (1880-1944).
BRYCE, Lucy Meredith (1897-1968).
BUCKLE, Glen (1912-1981).
BULL, Lionel Bately (1889-1978).
BULL, Richard Joseph (1874-1927).
BURNET, Frank Macfarlane (1898-1985).
BUTLER, Hildred Mary (1906-1975).
CARNE, Harold Roy (1900-1989).
CARNE, William Mervyn (1885-1952).
CASS-SMITH, Walter Pentland (1900-1977).
CHERRY, Thomas (1861-1945).
CLELAND, John Burton (1878-1971).
COBB, Nathan Augustus (1859-1932).
CONNOR (nee MACNAMARA), Annie Jean (1899-1968).
CUMPSTON, John Howard Lidgett (1880-1954).
DE BAVAY, Auguste Joseph Francois (1856-1944).
DE CRESPIGNY, Constantine Trent Champion (1882-1952).
DERRICK, Edward Holbrook (1898-1976).
DICKSON, Bertram Thomas (1886-1982).
DODD, Sydney (1878-1926).
DOUGLAS, Geoffrey William (1925-1985).
EDGAR, Grahame (1901-198p).
FAIRLEY, Neil Hamilton (1891-1966).
FARRER, William James (1845-1906).
FISHER, Stephen (1916-1983).
FLENTJE, Noel Thomas (1921-1974).
FORD, Edward (1902-1986).
FORNACHON, John Charles Macleod (1905-1968).
FOWLER, Malcolm Charles (1924-197 4).
FRASER, Lilian Ross (1909-1987).
GARDINER, Meredith Ryerss (1913-1976).
GARDNER, Hilda Josephine (1890-1953).
GILL, Dudley Arthur (1900-1973).
GILRUTH, John Anderson (1871-1937).
GOLDSWORTHY, Neil Ernest (1897-1960).
GOODCHILD, David John (1930-1989).
GORRIE, Colin John Richard (?1910-1974).
GOTTSCHALK, Alfred (1894-1973).
GREGG, Norman McAlister (1892-1966).
GREGORY, Thomas Screen (1903-1972).
GREIG-SMITH, Robert (1866-1927).
GUTTERIDGE, Noel Middleton (1896-1978).
HERBERT, Desmond Andrew (1898-1976).
HESLOP, George Gordon (1896-1983).
HEYDON, George Aloysius Makinson (1881-1963).
HINDMARSH, William Lloyd (1889-1980).
HIRSCHFELD, Eugen (1866-1946).
HONE, Frank Sandland (1871-1951).
HOWARD (nee WALTHO), Judith Ann (1935-1986).
HUDSON, John Richard (1905-1990).
HURST, Edward Weston (1900-1980).
INGLIS, William Keith (1888-1960).
JENSEN, Hans Lauritz (1898-1977).
JOHNSTON, George Arthur William (1922-1957).
KAMINISKI, Geraldine Whittle (1918-1985).
KENDALL, William Tyson (1851-1936).
KEOGH, Esmond Venner (1895-1970).
KOVACS, Nicholas (1899-1965).
LANE, William Reade (1914-1974).
LEGG, John (1892-1984).
LITTLE, Elaine Marjory (1884-1974).
LUSH, Dora (1910-1943).
McALPINE, Daniel (1849-1932).
McCARTNEY, James Elvins (1891-1969).
MACKEDDIE, John Fullarton (1868-1944).
MACKERRAS, Ian Murray (1898-1980).
MACKERRAS, Mabel Josephine (1896-1971).
McLAUGHIN, Eugene (1897-1962).
MACLEAY, William John (1820-1891).
McLENNAN, Ethel Irene (1891-1983).
McLORINAN, Henry (1895-1970).
MACNAMARA, Annie Jean (1899-1968).
MAGEE, Charles Joseph Patrick (1901-1989).
MARTIN, Charles James (1866-1955).
MATHISON, Gordon Clunes McKay (?1881-1915).
MAYO, Helen Mary (1878-1967).
MOLLER, William John (1936-1981).
MORGAN, Frederick Grantley (1891-1969).
MÜLLER, Karl Otto (1897-1978).
MURNANE, Daniel (1897-1972).
NOBLE, Robert Jackson (1893-1981).
NORRIS, Donald Owen (1916-1975).
NORTH, Edgar Alexander (1896-1970).
PARKER, Cecil David (1912-1981).
PATTERSON, Sydney Wentworth (1882-1960).
PENFOLD, William James (1875-1941).
PERRY, William John (1917-1965).
PLATT, Albert Edward (1901-1948).
POUND, Charles Joseph (1866-1946).
PRESCOTT, James Arthur (1890-1987).
PULLAR, Edward Murray (1906-1970).
REYE, Ralph Douglas Kenneth (1912-1977).
ROSE, Alfred Lionel (1898-1980).
RUBBO, Sydney Dattilo (1911-1969).
SAMUEL, Geoffrey (1898-1985).
SAWERS, William Campbell (1886-1955).
SCHOLES, Frank Victor Gordon (1885-1954).
SEDDON, Herbert Robert (1887-1964).
SMITH, John McGarvie (1844-1918).
STANLEY, Neville Fenton (1918-1985).
SWAN, Charles Spencer (1911-1963).
TALBOT, Patrick Henry Brabazon (1919-1979).
TEBBUTT, Arthur Hamilton (1884-1962).
THOMAS, Douglas John (1896-1954).
TIDSWELL, Frank (1867-1941).
TOLHURST, Jean Christa (1911-1966).
TRYON, Henry (1857-1944).
TURNER, Arthur William (1900-1990).
WALTERS, Lance Strothers (1906-1978).
WALTHO, Judith Ann (1935-1986), see HOWARD, Judith Ann
WARD, Hugh Kingsley (1887-1967).
WATERHOUSE, Walter Lawry (1887-1969).
WATSON, Irvine Armstrong (1914-1986).
WEBSTER, Reginald (1889-1976).
WILLIAMS, Fanny Eleanor (?1890-1963).
WILLIAMS, Stanley William (1905-1981).
WILLIS, Rupert Alan (1898-1980).
WILSON, Michael McCall (1913-1979).
WOOD, Edward James Ferguson (1904-1972).
WOODRUFF, Harold Addison (1877-1966).
WRIGHT, Hedley Duncan (1891-1942).

Source

Carlson 1991

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• Derrick, Edward Holbrook (1898 - 1976)
• Dickson, Bertram Thomas (1886 - 1982)
• Magee, Charles Joseph Patrick (1901 - 1989)
• Martin, Charles James (1866 - 1955)
• McLennan, Ethel Irene (1891 - 1983)
• Noble, Robert Jackson (1894 - 1981)
• Olsen, Albert Mervyn (1917 - 2008)
• Ward, Hugh Kingsley (1887 - 1972)
• Waterhouse, Walter Lawry (1887 - 1969)
• Watson, Irvine Armstrong (1914 - 1986)
• Williams, Fannie Eleanor (1884 - 1963)