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English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-03-16 human Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes updated 2026-05-19 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000211b.htm corporateBody Australian National Research Council (ANRC) AACR2 Australasian Research Council 1919 1921 ANRC 21 August 1919 1955 Start Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia End Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Association Society or Membership Organisation Provisionally established in 1919 as the "Australasian Research Council" for the purpose of representing Australia on the International Research Council, in 1921 it was formally established by the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as the "Australian National Research Council" (ANRC). Over the next few decades it provided a valuable service, but despite continued efforts and internal reforms, it struggled to influence government policy and secure adequate funding. Apart from research grants, its management was funded by its membership, and in 1934 it suffered a severe loss of most of its accumulated funds "by the extensive defalcations of its late Honorary Treasurer, Dr. Chapman". Ongoing and drawn out debates about its role, functions and prestige were overshadowed by the need for stability. It was restructured under ANZAAS, and from 1937 "Fellows" of ANZAAS, resident in Australia, formed the Australian National Research Council, with half of their Fellowship fees going to the Council. From 1939, State based committees were formed, and they elected the Executive. In 1951, following a Conference on Science in Australia, organised by the Australian National University, a new "Australian Academy of Science" was proposed. The general view was that the ANRC "had failed to achieve the status that was required of a national body with such weighty responsibilities". After the Academy was established in 1954 and had assumed most of functions of the ANRC, the ANRC was dissolved. One of the early initiatives of the ANRC was to successfully organise and host the 2nd Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Melbourne and in Sydney 1923. Another initiative was the "Australian Science Abstracts" [ISSN: 1835-9329], published separately from August 1922 v.1 until 1937 v.17, and as a supplement in its "Australian Journal of Science" from 1937 to 1956/57, v.35. The Council also published "Oceania" [ISSN: 1834-4461] from 1930 to 1954 - a journal devoted to the study of the native peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. As Australian membership of the various International Scientific Unions was effected through the ANRC, appropriate National Committees were appointed as the Australian Committee of each International Union. By 1949, there were seven National Committees: * Astronomy; * Chemistry; * Biological Sciences; * Crystallography; * Geodesy and Geophysics; * Pure and Applied Physics; * Radio Science. After the ANRC was dissolved in 1955, the "Australian Science Abstracts" were continued by ANZAAS for a few years, until superseded by the CSIRO "Australian Science Index" 1957-1983. The "Australian Journal of Science" was also continued by ANZAAS from 1955 until 1969/70.

At the suggestion of the Royal Society of London, delegates representing the Australian Scientific Societies held a meeting in Sydney on 21 August 1919 to consider forming an "Australasian Research Council", to act as the Australian Branch of the International Research Council. At this meeting a Provisional Council was appointed, and it was resolved that the selection of members of the Permanent Council be left in the hands of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at its next meeting in January, 1921. The members of the Provisional Council appointed in 1919 were:-
Sir Harry Allen,
Dr. J.M. Baldwin,
Mr. R.H. Cambage (Hon. Secretary),
Prof. H.S. Carslaw,
Prof. H.G. Chapman, (Hon. Treasurer),
Prof. W.E. Cooke,
Sir Edgeworth David (Chairman),
Mr. A.J. Gibson,
Prof. W.A. Haswell,
Mr. C. Hedley,
Mr. L. Hills,
Mr. H.A. Hunt,
Prof. T.R. Lyle,
Mr. J.H. Maiden,
Prof. Orme Masson,
Sir D. Mawson,
Prof. W.A. Osborne,
Prof. J.A. Pollock,
Prof. H.J. Priestley,
Mr. A.E.V. Richardson,
Prof. E.W. Skeats,
Sir Baldwin Spencer,
Prof. J.D. Stewart,
Dr. T.G. Taylor,
Prof. R.D. Watt,
Prof. D.A. Welsh,
Prof. N.T.M. Wilsmore,
Prof. H.A. Woodruff.

At the AAAS General Council Meeting, scheduled for Hobart but held in Melbourne on 15 January 1921, under the heading 'Australian National Research Council' the following resolutions were agreed to:-
1. The Resolutions of the Conference held in Sydney on the 21st August, 1919, shall cease to be operative from this day, 15th January, 1921.
2. The National Research Council shall consist of not more than 100 members, and shall contain two or more representatives of each of the following branches of Science and of such others as may be determined from time to time by the General Council of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science:- Agriculture, Anthropology, Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Economics and Statistics, Engineering, Geography, Geology, Mathematics, Mental Science and Education, Meteorology, Mining and Metallurgy, Pathology, Physics, Physiology, Veterinary Science, Zoology.
3. The members of the Provisional Council are hereby elected members of the Research Council, together with Mr. G.H. Knibbs and Mr. G. Lightfoot (representing Economics and Statistics), Professor Laby (representing Physics) and Messrs. R. Sticht and G.C. Klug (representing Mining and Metallurgy).
4. The members (as defined in Clause 3) shall co-opt additional members within the numerical limit prescribed in Clause 2, and shall select such additional members in consultation with the Presidents of the more important scientific, technical, and learned Association and Societies of the Commonwealth.
5. The Council may appoint as associate members scientific workers resident in Australia who are deemed likely to confer benefit by their researches.
6. The Council may appoint such Standing Committees and Special Committees as it deems requisite for national or international purpose.
7. The Council may appoint such office-bearers as it may determine. These shall hold office for a term of two years and be re-eligible.
8. A meeting of the members (as define in Clauses 3 and 4) shall be held in Sydney not later than May, 1921, for the purposes indicated in Clause 4, and a meeting of the whole Council so constituted shall meet as soon as possible thereafter for the purposes indicated in Rules 5, 6, and 7, and for the formulation of by-laws and any other necessary business.
9. Members unable to attend any such meeting may communicate their views beforehand in writing to the Hon. Secretary, and all such communications shall receive full consideration at the meeting.
10. Every member and associate member shall retain his membership for life unless it be terminated (1) by his resignation, (2) by his ceasing to reside in Australia, or (3) by vote of at least two-thirds of the members.
11. The Council shall submit a full report of its work and proceedings to the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science on the occasion of each meeting of the Association.
12. Until other arrangements are made for the financial support of the Council, each member thereof shall be liable to contribute the sum of £2 2s. per annum, and each associate member £1 1s. per annum.

At a meeting in Sydney in July 1921, additional members were selected to ensure representation of the pure and some applied sciences. The full list of council members as reported in the newspapers and journals were:
* Agriculture - Prof R.D.Watt, Messrs F.B.Guthrie, A.J.Perkins, A.E.V.Richardson;
* Anthropology - Sir Baldwin Spencer, Profs R.J.A.Berry and F.Wood-Jones, Messrs. C.Hedley, J.Mathew, and G.E.Smith;
* Astronomy - Prof W.E.Cooke, Dr. J.M.Baldwin, Mr. G.F.Dodwell, Father E.F.Pigot;
* Botany - Profs T.G.Osborn, A.J.Ewart, A.A.Lawson, A.H.Lucas, Messrs. R.T.Baker, R.H.Cambage, J.H.Maiden;
* Chemistry - Profs D.Orme-Masson, C.E.Fawsitt, J.Read, E.H.Rennie, N.T.M.Wilsmore, B.D.Steele, Messrs. J.B.Henderson, A.E.Leighton, H.G.Smith, Dr. D.Rivett;
* Economics and Statistics - Messrs. G.H.Knibbs and G.Lightfoot;
* Engineering - J.J.C.Bradfield, A.G.M.Michell, A.J.Gibson, Professor R.W.Chapman;
* Geography - Sir Douglas Mawson, Prof W.Howchin, Captain J.K.Davis, Mr. L.Hills;
* Geology - Sir Edgeworh David, Profs E.W.Skeats, H.C.Richards, Messrs. E.C.Andrews, B.Dunston, A.G.Maitland, F.L.Stillwell, L.K.Ward;
* Mathematics - Profs H.S.Carslaw and H.J.Priestley, Messrs. A.McAulay, J.H.Michell, E.M.Wellish;
* Mental Science - Profs F.Anderson and W.Mitchell;
* Meteorology - Prof T.G.Taylor, Mr. H.A.Hunt;
* Mining and Metallurgy - Messrs. G.D.Delprat, G.C.Klug, R.C.Sticht, W.E.Wainwright;
* Pathology - Sir Harry Allen, Profs J.B.Cleland and D.A.Welsh, Drs. A.W.Campbell, S.W.Patterson, and W.J.Penfold;
* Physics - Profs K.Grant, T.H.Laby, T.R.Lyle, T.Parnell, J.A.Pollock, Dr. E.F.Love, and Mr. O.Vonwiller;
* Physiology - Profs H.G.Chapman, W.A.Osborne, T.B.Robertson, Dr. E.H.Embley;
* Veterinary Science - Profs J.D.Stewart and H.A.Woodruff, Drs. S.Dodd, J.A.Gilruth;
* Zoology - Profs W.A.Haswell, T.H.Johnston, W.E.Agar, Drs. Georgina Sweet, J.J.Fletcher, Messrs. W.W.Froggatt and A.Waterhouse.

The first meeting of the Australian National Research Council was held in Melbourne in August 1921, when the first Executive Committee were elected.

From then on, the Executive met about three times each year; an annual General Meeting open to all members was held each year; and published annual reports record the proceedings.

General Meetings were held:
* 1921 Melbourne, 10 January 1921
* 1922 Sydney, 16 August 1922
* 1923 Melbourne, August 1923
* 1925 Sydney, August 1925
* 1926 Perth, August 1926
* 1927 Melbourne, August 1927
* 1928 Sydney, August 1928
* 1929 ???? October, 1929
* 1930 Brisbane, 27 May 1930
* 1931 Melbourne, 28 August 1931
* 1932 Sydney, 16 August 1932
* 1935 Melbourne, 15 January 1935

* 1939 Canberra, 10 January 1939
* 1946 Adelaide, 20 August 1946
* 1947 Perth, 19 August 1947
* 1949 Hobart, January 1949
* 1951 Brisbane, 22 May 1951
* 1952 Sydney?, 19 August 1952
* 1955 Canberra, 16 August 1955 [Final]

Monash, John (1865 - 1931)

Member (Engineering) 1925 -

Sutton, George Lowe (1872 - 1964)

Member (Agriculture) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Agriculture) 1922 - 1932

Sweet, Georgina (1875 - 1946)

Foundation Member (Zoology) 1921 -

Nicholls, George Edward (1878 - 1953)

Member (Zoology) 1922 -

Harrison, Launcelot (1880 - 1928)

Member (Zoology) 1924 -

Young, William John (1878 - 1942)

Member (Physiology) 1922 -

Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879 - 1929)

Member (Physics) 1925 -

Whitfeld, Hubert Edwin (1875 - 1939)

Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1923 -

Fraser, Colin (1875 - 1944)

Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1922 -

Avery, David (1871 - 1956)

Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1922 -

Kidson, Edward (1882 - 1939)

Member (Meteorology) 1924 -

Wilton, John Raymond (1884 - 1944)

Member (Mathematics) 1923 -

Woolnough, Walter George (1876 - 1958)

Member (Geology) 1924 -

Summers, Herbert St John (1876 - 1963)

Member (Geology) 1925 -

Paterson, John Waugh (1869 - 1958)

Member (Agriculture) 1927 -

White, Cyril Tenison (1890 - 1950)

Member (Botany) 1923 -

Priestley, Henry (1884 - 1961)

Associate Member (Physiology) 1924 - 1926; Member (Physiology) 1926 - c1948

Bull, Lionel Batley (1889 - 1978)

Associate Member (Veterinary Science) 1922 - 1932; Member (Veterinary Science) 1932 - c1954

Henry, Max (1883 - 1959)

Associate Member (Veterinary Science) 1922 -

Seddon, Herbert Robert (1887 - 1964)

Associate Member (Veterinary Science) 1922 - ; Member 1937 -

Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1930 - )

From 1937, ANZAAS took over management of membership of the Australian National Research Council. "Fellows" of ANZAAS resident in Australia, formed the Australian National Research Council, with half of their ANZAAS Fellowship fees going to the Council.

Baragwanath, William (1878 - 1966)

Member (Geology) 1922 -

Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908 - 1979)

Honorary Abstractor (Botany), Australian Science Abstracts 1949 -

Süssmilch, Adolph Carl von de Heyde (1875 - 1946)

Member (Geography) 1922 -

Kenner, James (1885 - 1974)

Member (Chemistry) 1925 -

Mingaye, John Charles Henderson (1859 - 1954)

Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Simpson, Edward Sydney (1875 - 1939)

Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Dare, Henry Harvey (1867 - 1949)

Member (Engineering) 1922 -

Julius, George Alfred (1873 - 1946)

President 1932 - 1937; Member (Engineering) 1922 -

Cheel, Edwin (1872 - 1951)

Associate Member (Botany) 1922 -

Ward, Hugh Kingsley (1887 - 1972)

Chairman 1952 - 1953

Murray, Jack Keith (1889 - 1979)

Associate Member (Agriculture) 1926 - 1932; Member (Agriculture) 1932 -

Curlewis, Harold Burnham (1874 - 1968)

Associate Member (Astronomy) 1922 -

Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897 - 1956)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1922 -

Cumpston, John Howard Lidgett (1880 - 1954)

Member (Pathology) 1926 -

Darnell-Smith, George Percy (1868 - 1942)

Member (Botany) 1926 -

Kellaway, Charles Halliley (1889 - 1952)

Member (Pathology) 1926 -

Hull, Arthur Francis Basset (1862 - 1945)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1922 -

Halligan, Gerald Harnett (1856 - 1942)

Associate Member (Geography) 1926 -

Goddard, Ernest James (1883 - 1948)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1923 - 1928; Member (Zoology) 1928 -

Madigan, Cecil Thomas (1889 - 1947)

Associate Member (Geology) 1926 - 1935; Member (Geology) 1935 - c1947

Noble, Robert Jackson (1894 - 1981)

Associate Member (Agriculture) 1926 -

Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (1881 - 1955)

Associate Member (Anthropology) 1926 - 1927; Member (Anthropology) 1927 -

Waterhouse, Walter Lawry (1887 - 1969)

Associate Member (Agriculture) 1926 - 1932; Member (Agriculture) 1932 -

White-Haney, Jean (1877 - 1953)

Associate Member (Botany) 1926 -

Commonwealth Universities Research Grants Committee, Commonweatlh of Australia (1946 - 1965) Burkitt, Arthur Neville St George Handcock (1891 - 1959)

Associate Member (Anthropology) 1926 - 1927; Member (Anthropology) 1927 -

Campbell, Frederick Harper (1879 - 1958)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Booth, Edgar Harold (1893 - 1963)

Elected Associate Member (Physics) 1922 -

Kessell, Stephen Lackey (1897 - 1979)

Member (Botany and Forestry) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Botany) 1922 - c1932

McLuckie, John (1890 - 1956)

Associate Member (Botany) 1922 -

Ampt, Gustav Adolph (1886 - 1953)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Anderson, Valentine George (1885 - 1969)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Longman, Heber Albert (1880 - 1954)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1924 - 1930; Member (Zoology) 1930 -

Callister, Cyril Percy (1893 - 1949)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Blakely, William Faris (1875 - 1941)

Associate Member (Botany) 1924 -

Clendinnen, F. W. J.

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Cooke, William Ternent (1877 - 1957)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1923 -

Doherty, William Michael (1865 - 1950)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1923 -

Smith, Stewart Arthur (1880 - 1961)

Foundation Councillor (Anthropology) 1921 -

Buchanan, Gwynneth Vaughan (1886 - 1945)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1922 -

Ferguson, Eustace William (1884 - 1927)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1922 -

Bell, Marcus (1881 - 1934)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Lane-Poole, Charles Edward (1885 - 1970)

Member (Botany and Forestry) 1928 -

Kinghorn, James Roy (1891 - 1983)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1928 -

Penfold, Arthur de Ramon (1890 - 1980)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1923 -

Pound, James Robert (1888 - 1967)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Clunies Ross, William Ian (1899 - 1959)

Member (Veterinary Science) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Veterinary Science) 1927 - 1932

Stump, Claude Witherington (1891 - 1971)

Associate Member (Anthropology) 1927 -

Hartung, Ernst Johannes (1893 - 1979)

Member (Chemistry) 1930 - ; Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 - 1930

Wilkinson, Herbert John (1891 - 1963)

Member (Anthropology) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Anthropology) 1927 - 1932

Harker, George Percy (1878 - 1957)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Welch, Marcus Baldwin (1895 - 1942)

Associate Member (Botany and Forestry) 1928 -

Osborne, George Davenport (1899 - 1955)

Member (Geology) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Geology) 1928 - 1932

Gurney, William Butler (1882 - 1939)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1927 -

Lord, Clive Errol (1889 - 1933)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1927 -

Nicholson, Alexander John (John) (1895 - 1969)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1927 -

Lusby, Sydney Gordon (1885 - 1973)

Elected Associate Member (Physics) 1922 -

Wickens, Charles Henry (1872 - 1939)

Associate Member (Economics and Statistics) 1927 -

Sissons, Alfred Thomas Stanley (1888 - 1975)

Member 1937 -

Australian science abstracts (1922 - 1957)

Publisher 1922 - 1954

Australian journal of science (1938 - 1970)

Publisher 1938 - 1954

Duhig, James Vincent Joseph (1889 - 1963)

Member 1937 -

Gepp, Herbert William (1877 - 1954)

Member 1937 -

Kemp, John Robert (1883 - 1955)

Member (Engineering) 1937 -

Lewis, Reginald Jamieson (1879? - 1936)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Rogers, Richard Sanders (c. 1861 - 1942)

Member 1937 -

Mackerras, Ian Murray (1898 - 1980)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1928 -

Stanton, Byron Lionel (1891 - 1963)

Member 1937 -

Sutton, Harvey Vincent (1882 - 1963)

Member 1937 -

Wadham, Samuel MacMahon (1891 - 1972)

Member 1937 -

Ashby, Eric (1904 - 1992)

Chair 1943

Earl, John Campbell (1890 - 1978)

Member (Chemistry) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 - c1932

Grimwade, Wilfrid Russell (1879 - 1955)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1922 -

Kenyon, Alfred Stephen (1867 - 1943)

Member (Anthropology) 1937 -

Mahony, Daniel James (1878 - 1944)

Associate Member (Geology) 1923 -

Hicks, Cedric Stanton (1892 - 1976)

Member (Physiology) 1930 - , Associate Member (Physiology) 1928 - 1930

Fenner, Charles Albert Edward (1884 - 1955)

Associate Member (Geography) 1923 - 1932; Member (Geography) 1932 - c1954

Price, Archibald Grenfell (1892 - 1977)

Associate Member (Geography) 1923 -

Anderson, Charles (1876 - 1944)

Associate Member (Geology) 1922 - ; Member (Zoology) 1932 -

Browne, William Rowan (1884 - 1975)

Associate Member (Geology) 1922 - 1928; Member (Geology) 1928 - c1954

Courtice, Frederick Colin (Colin) (1911 - 1992)

Assistant Honorary Secretary 1954

Cotton, Leo Arthur (1883 - 1963)

Associate Member (Geology) 1922 - 1926; Member (Geology) 1926 -

Esserman, Norman Abraham (1896 - 1982)

Honorary Treasurer 1954

Thompson, Roland Dale (1895 - 1950)

Associate Member (Mathematics) 1922 -

Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton (1870 - 1951)

Associate Member (Mental Science and Education) 1924 - 1927; Member (Mental Health and Education) 1927 -

Quayle, Edwin Thomas (1862 - 1955)

Associate Member (Meteorology) 1923 -

Dale, John (1885 - 1952)

Associate Member (Pathology) 1923 -

Latham, Oliver (1877 - 1974)

Associate Member (Pathology) 1923 -

Chalmers, Robert Oliver (1911 - 2006)

Honorary Abstractor (Geology), Australian Science Abstracts 1949 -

Bryan, Walter Heywood (1891 - 1966)

Associate Member (Geology) 1924 - 1932; Member (Geology) 1932 - c1954

Weatherburn, Charles Ernest (1884 - 1974)

Member (Mathematics) 1930 -

Roughley, Theodore Cleveland (1888 - 1961)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1928 -

Troughton, Ellis Le Geyt (1893 - 1974)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1928 -

Dakin, William John (John) (1883 - 1950)

Member (Zoology) 1930 -

Dickson, Bertram Thomas (1886 - 1982)

Member (Botany and Forestry) 1930 -

Macbeth, Alexander Killen (1889 - 1957)

Member (Chemistry) 1930 -

Piesse, Edmund Leolin (1880 - 1947)

Member (Geography) 1923 -

Tillyard, Robin John (1881 - 1937)

Member (Zoology) 1930 -

Briggs, George Henry (1893 - 1987)

Elected Associate Member (Physics) 1922 -

Bishop, Wilfrid Barnard Shackson (1898 - 1973)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1930 -

Davies, Harold Whitridge (1894 - 1946)

Member (Physiology) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Physiology) 1930 - c1932

Campbell, Thomas Draper (1893 - 1967)

Elected Member (Anthropology) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Anthropology) 1927 - 1931

Carne, Walter Mervyn (1885 - 1952)

Associate Member (Botany and Forestry) 1927 -

Elkin, Adolphus Peter (1891 - 1979)

Chairman 1954; Member 1935 - 1954; Associate Member (Anthropology) 1932 - 1935

Robertson, Rutherford Ness (Bob) (1913 - 2001)

Honorary Secretary 1954

MacCallum, Peter (1885 - 1974)

Chairman 1948 - 1951; Member (Pathology) 1930 - c1954

Parnell, Thomas (1881 - 1948)

Foundation Member (Physics) 1921 -

Ross, Alexander David (1883 - 1966)

Chairman, Western Australian State Committee 1944 - 1955; Member (Physics) 1923

Masson, David Orme (1858 - 1937)

President 1922 - 1926; Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1919 -

Chapman, Frederick (1864 - 1943)

Member (Geology) 1922 -

Waterhouse, Gustavus Athol (Athol) (1877 - 1950)

Foundation Member (Zoology) 1921 - 1950

Lyle, Thomas Ranken (1860 - 1944)

President 1929 - 1932; Foundation Member (Physics) 1919 -

Barraclough, Samuel Henry Egerton (Henry) (1871 - 1958)

Member (Engineering) 1926 -

Carne, Harold Roy (1901 - 1990)

Honorary Secretary, 1940 - 1950; Associate Member (Veterinary Science) 1932 -

Cambage, Richard Hind (1859 - 1928)

President 1926 - 1928; Foundation Hon.Secretary 1919 - 1926; Foundation Member (Botany) 1919 - 1928

Richards, Henry Caselli (1884 - 1947)

Foundation Member (Geology) 1921 - 1932

Froggatt, Walter Wilson (1858 - 1937)

Foundation Member (Zoology) 1921 - 1932

Wilsmore, Norman Thomas Mortimer (1868 - 1940)

Vice-President 1933 - 1934; Fellow 1933 - ; Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1919 -

Dun, William Sutherland (1868 - 1934)

Associate Member (Geology) 1922 - 1934

Watt, Robert Dickie (1881 - 1965)

Foundation Member (Agriculture) 1919 - 1954

Whitley, Gilbert Percy (1903 - 1975)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1932 -

Gilruth, John Anderson (1871 - 1937)

Foundation Member (Veterinary Science) 1921 -

Ward, Leonard Keith (1879 - 1964)

Foundation Member (Geology) 1921 -

Hargreaves, William Arthur (1866 - 1959)

Member (Chemistry) 1927 -

Wellisch, Edward Montague (1882 - 1948)

Foundation Member (Mathematics) 1921 -

Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856 - 1937)

Foundation Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1921 -

Wainwright, William Edward (1873 - 1959)

Foundation Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1921 -

Embley, Edward Henry (1861 - 1924)

Foundation Member (Physiology) 1921 - 1924

Campbell, Alfred Walter (Snowy) (1868 - 1937)

Foundation Member (Pathology) 1921 -

Robertson, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 - 1930)

Foundation Member (Physiology) 1921 -

Klug, George Charles (1875 - 1935)

Foundation Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1921 -

Fletcher, Joseph James (1850 - 1926)

Foundation Member (Zoology) 1921 - 1924

Penfold, William James (1875 - 1941)

Foundation Member (Pathology) 1921 -

Patterson, Sydney Wentworth (1882 - 1960)

Foundation Member (Pathology) 1921 - 1923

Grant, Kerr (1878 - 1967)

Foundation Member (Physics) 1921 -

Wark, Ian William (1899 - 1985)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1925 - c1937; Member (Chemistry) c1937 - c1954

Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)

Foundation Member (Pathology) 1921 -

Hogbin, Herbert Ian Priestley (1904 - 1989)

Associate Member (Anthropology) 1932 -

Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian National Research Council and Australian Academy of Science (1935 - )

The Council awarded the Medal between 1935 and 1953

Martin, Charles James (1866 - 1955)

Elected Member (Physiology?) 1932 -

Prescott, James Arthur (1890 - 1987)

Member (Chemistry) 1932 -

Turner, Arthur William (1900 - 1989)

Member (Veterinary Science) 1932 -

Brown, Ida Alison (1900 - 1976)

Associate Member (Geology) 1932 -

Hawken, Roger William Hercules (1878 - 1947)

Member (Engineering) 1932 -

Herbert, Desmond Andrew (1898 - 1976)

Associate Member (Botany and Forestry) 1932 -

Davidson, James (1885 - 1945)

Member (Zoology) 1932 -

Iredale, Tom (1880 - 1972)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1932 -

Raggatt, Harold George (1900 - 1968)

Associate Member (Geology) 1932 -

Swain, Edward Harold Fulcher (1883 - 1970)

Associate Member (Botany and Forestry) 1932 -

Thorpe, William Walford (1879 - 1932)

Associate Member (Anthropology) 1932 -

Trumble, Hugh Christian (1903 - 1960)

Associate Member (Agriculture) 1932 -

Whitehouse, Frederick William (1900 - 1973)

Associate Member (Geology) 1932 -

Davies, John Griffiths (1904 - 1969)

Associate Member (Agriculture) 1932 -

Mankin, Winifred Roby (1902 - 1972)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1930 -

Stillwell, Frank Leslie (1888 - 1963)

Foundation Member (Geology) 1921 -

Skeats, Ernest Willington (1875 - 1953)

Foundation Member (Geology) 1919 -

Andrews, Ernest Clayton (1870 - 1948)

Executive Committee Member 1922 - 1942; Foundation Member (Geology) 1921 -

Jones, Frederic Wood (1879 - 1954)

Foundation Member (Anthropology) 1921 - 1925; re-elected 1926, 1930 - c1954

Vonwiller, Oscar Ulrich (1882 - 1972)

Treasurer 1934 - 1940; Foundation Member (Physics) 1921 -

Holmes, James Macdonald (1896 - 1966)

Member (Geography) 1932 -

Firth, Raymond William (1901 - 2002)

Member (Anthropology) 1932 - ; Associate Member (Anthropology) 1930 - c1932

David, Tannatt William Edgeworth (1858 - 1934)

Foundation President 1919 - 1922; Foundation Member (Geology) 1919 -

Moppett, Wenceslaus Warnford (Warnford) (1898 - 1982)

Associate Member (Physiology) 1930 -

Newman, Rollo Keith (1903 - 1976)

Associate Member (Chemistry) 1930 -

Bagster, Lancelot Salisbury (1886 - 1940)

Member (Chemistry) 1932 -

Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878 - 1955)

Member (Chemistry) 1932 -

Chapman, Wilfrid Dinsey (1891 - 1955)

Member (Engineering) 1932 -

Cilento, Raphael West (1893 - 1985)

Member (Anthropology) 1932 -

Walkom, Arthur Bache (1889 - 1976)

Secretary 1937 - 1940, Editor Australian Science Abstracts 1922 - 1929; Member (Geology) 1925 -

Baldwin, Joseph Mason (1878 - 1945)

Foundation Member (Astronomy) 1919 -

Laby, Thomas Howell (1880 - 1946)

Foundation Member (Physics) 1921 -

Priestley, Henry James (1883 - 1932)

Foundation Member (Mathematics) 1919 -

Richardson, Arnold Edwin Victor (1883 - 1949)

Foundation Member (Agriculture) 1919 -

Spencer, Walter Baldwin (1860 - 1929)

Foundation Member (Anthropology) 1919 -

Stewart, James Douglas (1869 - 1955)

Foundation Member (Veterinary Science) 1919 -

Osborne, William Alexander (1873 - 1967)

Foundation Member (Physiology) 1919 -

Allen, Harry Brookes (1854 - 1926)

Foundation Member (Pathology) 1919 -

Mawson, Douglas (1882 - 1958)

Foundation Member (Geography) 1919 -

Carslaw, Horatio Scott (1870 - 1954)

Foundation Member (Mathematics) 1919 -

Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880 - 1963)

Foundation Member (Meteorology) 1919 -

Welsh, David Arthur (1865 - 1948)

Foundation Member (Pathology) 1919 -

Woodruff, Harold Addison (1877 - 1966)

Foundation Member (Veterinary Science) 1919 -

Knibbs, George Handley (1858 - 1929)

Foundation Member (Economics and Statistics) 1921 -

McAulay, Alexander (1863 - 1931)

Foundation Member (Mathematics) 1921 -

Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

The AAAS formally established the ANRC in 1921

Chapman, Henry George (1879 - 1934)

Foundation Hon.Treasurer 1919 - ; Foundation Member (Physiology) 1919 -

Fletcher, Harold Oswald (1903 - 1996)

Honorary Abstractor (Geology/Palaeontology), Australian Science Abstracts 1949 -

Musgrave, Anthony (1895 - 1959)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1932 - ; Honorary Abstractor (Zoology), Australian Science Abstracts 1949 -

Humphrey, George Frederick (1920 - )

Honorary Abstractor (Biochemistry), Australian Science Abstracts, 1949 -

Read, John (1884 - 1963)

Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1921 - 1922

Anderson, Francis (1858 - 1941)

Foundation Member (Mental Science) 1921 -

Pollock, James Arthur (1865 - 1922)

Foundation Member (Physics) 1919 - 1922; Executive Committee 1921 - 1922

Dodd, Sydney (1874 - 1926)

Foundation Member (Veterinary Science) 1921 - 1926

Sticht, Robert Carl (1856 - 1922)

Foundation Member (Mining and Metallurgy) 1921 - 1922

Cooke, William Ernest (1863 - 1947)

Foundation Member (Astronomy) 1919 -

Gibson, Alexander James (1876 - 1960)

Foundation Member (Engineering) 1919 -

Haswell, William Aitcheson (1854 - 1925)

Foundation Member (Zoology) 1919 -

Hedley, Charles (1862 - 1926)

Foundation Member (Anthropology) 1919 -

Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866 - 1946)

Foundation Member (Meteorology) 1919 -

Maiden, Joseph Henry (1859 - 1925)

Foundation Member (Botany) 1919 -

Mitchell, William (1861 - 1962)

Foundation Member (Mental Science) 1921 -

Bradfield, John Job Crew (1867 - 1943)

Foundation Member (Engineering) 1921 -

Lightfoot, Gerald (1877 - 1966)

Foundation Member (Economics and Statistics) 1921 - ; Editor Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Australia 1923 - 1924

Rennie, Edward Henry (1852 - 1927)

Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1921 -

Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870 - 1931)

Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1921 -

Leighton, Arthur Edgar (1873 - 1961)

Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1921 -

Smith, Henry George (1852 - 1924)

Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1921 -

Baker, Richard Thomas (1854 - 1941)

Foundation Member (Botany) 1921 -

Henderson, John Brownlie (1869 - 1950)

Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1921 -

Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare (1853 - 1936)

Foundation Member (Botany) 1921 -

Michell, Anthony George Maldon (George) (1870 - 1959)

Foundation Member (Engineering) 1921 -

Michell, John Henry (1863 - 1940)

Foundation Member (Mathematics) 1921 -

Chapman, Robert William (1866 - 1942)

Foundation Member (Engineering) 1921 -

Howchin, Walter (1845 - 1937)

Foundation Member (Geography) 1921 -

Davis, John King (1884 - 1967)

Foundation Member (Geography) 1921 -

Dunstan, Benjamin (1864 - 1933)

Foundation Member (Geology) 1921 -

Rivett, Albert Cherbury David (David) (1885 - 1961)

Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1921 -

Berry, Richard James Arthur (1867 - 1962)

Foundation Member (Anthropology) 1921 -

Love, Ernest Frederick John (1861 - 1929)

Foundation Hon.Secretary, (Geodesy and Geophysics) 1922 - 1929; Foundation Member (Physics) 1921 - 1929.

Loftus-Hills, Clive (1885 - 1967)

Foundation Member (Geography) 1919 -

Guthrie, Frederick Bickell (1861 - 1927)

Foundation Member (Agriculture) 1921 -

Perkins, Arthur James (1871 - 1944)

Foundation Member (Agriculture) 1921 -

Fawsitt, Charles Edward (1878 - 1960)

Foundation Member (Chemistry) 1921 -

Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881 - 1951)

Foundation Member (Zoology) 1921 -

Maitland, Andrew Gibb (1864 - 1951)

Foundation Member (Geology) 1921 -

Mathew, John (1849 - 1929)

Foundation Member (Anthropology) 1921 - 1929

Dodwell, George Frederick (1879 - 1963)

Foundation Member (Astronomy) 1921 -

Pigot, Edward Francis (1858 - 1929)

Foundation Member (Astronomy) 1921 -

Osborn, Theodore George Bentley (1887 - 1973)

Foundation Member (Botany) 1921 -

Ewart, Alfred James (1872 - 1937)

Foundation Member (Botany) 1921 - 1927 ?; Member (Botany and Forestry) 1927 -

Lawson, Abercrombie Anstruther (1870 - 1927)

Foundation Member (Botany) 1921 - 1927

Agar, Wilfred Eade (1882 - 1951)

Foundation Member (Zoology) 1921 -

National Committee for Astronomy [I], Australian National Research Council (1939 - 1954) Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

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