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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-11-21 human Helen Morgan updated 2025-03-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000807b.htm corporateBody Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science AACR2 15 June 1854 10 July 1855 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Location Melbourne, Victoria Association Society or Membership Organisation Industrial or Scientific Research The Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science was founded in Melbourne on 15 June 1854, at the instigation of William Sydney Gibbons. Its main purposes were stated to be: a means of communication between persons engaged in the pursuit of science; the cultivating of a refined taste among the people of Victoria; provide a source to which the community generally may look for information on scientific subjects; provide a centre for the collection of observations and specimens from all sources; provide an agency for the development of the resources of the colony. The Institute amalgamated with the Philosophical Society of Victoria in July 1855 to form the Philosophical Institute of Victoria. Transactions and proceedings of the Victorian Institution for the Advancement of Science (1855 - )

Publisher 1855

 Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825 - 1896)

Member of Council 1854 - 1855

 Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824 - 1902)

Member of Council 1854 - 1855

 Clarke, Andrew (1824 - 1902)

Vice-President 1854 - 1855

 McMillan, Angus (1810 - 1865)

Member 1854 - 1855

 Barry, Redmond (1813 - 1880)

President 1854

 Philosophical Institute of Victoria (1855 - 1859)

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 'Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Edited Book: The Inaugural Addresses of the First Presidents of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science and the Philosophical Society of Victoria Archbold, N. W.; McCann, D. A. The Inaugural Addresses of the First Presidents of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science and the Philosophical Society of Victoria Melbourne Royal Society of Victoria 2004 Resource Section: The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959 Pescott, R. T. M. The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959 2001 Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Resource Section: Publication Dates of Early Scientific Journals in Victoria Aston, Helen Publication Dates of Early Scientific Journals in Victoria 2001 Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Resource Section: Alphabetical List of Members 1854-1872, Compiled From the List of Members in the Proceedings Martin, F.; and V. Alphabetical List of Members 1854-1872, Compiled From the List of Members in the Proceedings 2001 Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Journal Article: Publication Dates of Early Scientific Journals in Victoria Aston, Helen Publication Dates of Early Scientific Journals in Victoria 1984 Muelleria 5 281-288 Journal Article: The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959 Pescott, R. T. M. The Royal Society of Victoria From Then, 1854 to Now, 1959 1961 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 73 1-40 Resource: The Royal Society of Victoria Guide to Records The Royal Society of Victoria Guide to Records Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2001 Resource: Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001 Royal Society of Victoria - Records State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection Royal Society of Victoria - Records MS 11663 1854 - 1988 Minute books; correspondence files (general, secretarial, financial); correspondence relating to publication of the Transactions and Proceedings; correspondence and accounts relating to the land and hall of the Society, and to memorial funds and government grants; original drafts of scientific papers (1857-1860, 1912); records relating to symposia held (1956-1974); library records; membership records, including 'deaths and resignations' files containing papers relating to wider matters; financial records; reports, notices and other printed matter (incomplete); manuscript papers of Royal Society of Victoria Government Prize essays, 1860; miscellaneous files relating to the history of the society and activities of members; and, photographic material. Also includes records of the Microscopical Society of Victoria: minutes of meetings (31 July 1873 - 28 July 1887), including lists of members, some correspondence, notice papers and reports. 9 m, 37 boxes Photographs, Artwork