Person

Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare (1853 - 1936)

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Born
7 May 1853
Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died
10 June 1936
Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Explorer, Naturalist, Schoolmaster and Ornithologist

Summary

Arthur Lucas, who was born and educated in England, came, as mathematics and science master, to Wesley College, Melbourne in 1883. He was later headmaster of Newington College, Sydney 1892-1898 and then taught at Sydney Grammar School 1899-1923. Lucas was an active participant in scientific societies in Australia, serving as President of both the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (F.N.C.V.) and the Linnean Society of New South Wales. He was heavily involved in the campaign of the F.N.C.V. to establish a national park at Wilsons Promontory (ultimately established in 1898) and in the initiation of a biological survey of Port Philip. Lucas wrote widely on the Australian fauna and was a recognised authority on Australian marine algae. For over 20 years Lucas was Honorary Curator of Algae at the herbarium of New South Wales.

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Chronology

1870 - 1874
Education - BA, University of Oxford, England
1874 - 1877
Education - MA, University of Oxford, England
1878 - 1882
Career position - Teacher, Leys School, Cambridge
1879
Education - BSc, University of London
1881 - 1936?
Award - Fellow, Geological Society, London
1883 - 1891
Career position - Mathematics and Science Master, Wesley College, Melbourne
1884 - 1892
Career position - Editor, Victorian naturalist
1887 - 1889
Career position - President, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
1892 - 1898
Career position - Headmaster, Newington College, Sydney
1893 - 1936
Career position - Member, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1894 - 1936
Career position - Council Member, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1899 - 1916
Career position - Mathematics and Science Master, Sydney Grammar School
1907 - 1909
Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1909
Career position - President, Section E (Geography), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1916 - 1919
Career position - Acting Headmaster, Sydney Grammar School
1920 - 1923
Career position - Headmaster, Sydney Grammar School
1921 -
Career position - Foundation Councillor (Botany), Australian National Research Council
1923
Career position - Chair of Mathematics and Acting Professor, University of Tasmania
1934
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus lucasii Blakely was named in his honour

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

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

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Angus & Robertson - Records, 1824 - 1933, ML MSS 314; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • Baldwin Spencer - Records, 1880 - 1929, ML MSS 29; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas - Records, 1853 - 1936; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Lucas, A. . S., The algae of Commonwealth Bay (Sydney: Government Printer, 1919), 28 pp. Details
  • Lucas, A. H., Scientist: His Own Story, 1 vols (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937). Details
  • Lucas, A. H. S., The seaweeds of South Australia, part 1: introduction and the green and brown seaweeds (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1936), 103 pp. Details
  • Lucas, A. H. S.; and Le SouĂ«f, W. H. Dudley, The birds of Australia (Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1911), 489 pp. Details
  • Lucas, A.H.S.; and Perrin, F., The seaweeds of South Australia (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1936-1947), 458 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • 'Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas, 1853-1936', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 62 (1937), 243-252. Details
  • Ducker, Sophie C., 'An early overland expedition to Wilsons Promontory', The Victorian naturalist, 115 (1998), 292-5. Details
  • Lucas, A. H. S., 'Charles Darwin on Australia', The Victorian naturalist, 2 (1885), 20-24. Details
  • Lucas, A. H. S., 'Presidential address: the relations of science and government', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 33 (1908), 13-38. Details
  • Lucas, A. H.S., 'A Pioneer Botanist in Victoria', The Victorian naturalist, 50 (12) (1933), 186-190. Details

Resources

See also

  • Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_l.html. Details
  • Ducker, Sophie C., 'Port Phillip Heads: a phycological saga', Phycologia, 22 (1983), 431-443. https://doi.org/10.2216/i0031-8884-22-4-4. Details
  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
  • Sprent, J. F. A., 'Ronald Harry Wharton 1923-83', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 293-301. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620293. Details
  • Willis, J. H., 'Botanical pioneers in Victoria - III', Victorian naturalist, 66 (7) (1949), 123-8. Details
  • Willis, J. H., Botanical Pioneers in Victoria, vol. 66 ([Melbourne]: [Brown Prior Anderson], 1949), 19 pp. Details

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