A002085 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2002-07-22 human Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn updated 2026-05-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A002085b.htm corporateBody Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union AACR2 RAOU 1910 1997 Start Place Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia Location Hawthorn East, Victoria Association Society or Membership Organisation Ornithology The Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (RAOU) dates for 1910 when the Union's predecessor, the Australasian Ornithologists' Union, received a Royal warrant from King George V. The Union's objectives continued to be the study and protection of Australia's avifauna, the promotion, advancement and popularisation of ornithology, and the publication of The emu. Following a period of decline the RAOU was revived in the late 1960s with an increased emphasis on the scientific aspects of ornithology. The RAOU has a number of regional and special interest groups, and established observatories in several States. Major initiatives of the RAOU include the Atlas of Australian Birds project and the publication of the 5-volume Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds (1990 - 2006). In 1997 the RAOU became Birds Australia. As well as publishing The emu the RAOU issued a members newsletter from 1969 (later named Wingspan. Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1901 - 1910) Leach, John Albert (1870 - 1929)

President 1922 - 1924

 Barrett, Charles Leslie (1879 - 1959)

Member 1910 - 1959

 Chisholm, Alexander Hugh (Alec) (1890 - 1977)

President 1939 - 1940; Fellow 1941 - 1974; Honorary Member 1971 - 1977

 De Vis, Charles Walter (1829 - 1915)

Member 1910 - 1915

 Legge, William Vincent (1841 - 1918)

Member 1910 - 1918

 Barker, George Herbert (1880 - 1965)

President 1940 - 1941

 Favaloro, Norman Joseph (1905 - 1989)

President 1952 - 1954, Treasurer 1965 - 1968; Life Member 1973 - 1989

 Cameron, Margaret Alison (1937 - 2023)

President 1986 - 1989; Fellow 1993 - 1997

 Hindwood, Keith Alfred (1904 - 1971)

President 1944 - 1946; Fellow 1951 - 1971

 Snape, Brian

President 1996 - 1997

 J. N. Hobbs Memorial Medal, Birdlife Australia (1995 - )

The New South Wales Regional Group awarded the Medal 1995 - 1997

 Bryant, Charles Ernest William (1902 - 1960)

President 1955 - 1957

 Dow, Douglas David

President 1983 - 1986

 Fleming, Charles Alexander (1916 - 1987)

Fellow 1974 - 1987

 Campbell, Archibald George (1880 - 1954)

Member 1910 - 1941 President 1934 - 1935; Fellow 1941 - 1954

 Jarman, Howard Ernest Alfred (1916 - 1982)

Treasurer 1954 - 1958

 Learmonth, Noel Fulford (1880 - 1970)

Member 1948 - 1970; Vice-President 1961 - 1962

 Middleton, William George Dyer (Bill) (1926 - 2018)

Member 1941 -

 Alexander, Wilfred Backhouse (1885 - 1965)

Vice-President 1923 - 1925; Fellow 1939 - 1965 Vice-President 1923 - 1925; Fellow 1939 - 1965

 Storr, Glen Milton (1921 - 1990)

Secretary, Western Australian Branch 1954

 Reilly, Pauline Neura (1918 - 2011)

President 1972 - 1975; Fellow 1981 - 1997

 Moors, Philip James (1948 - )

Director 1989 - 1992

 Wheeler, Wilson Roy (Roy) (1905 - 1988)

President 1964 - 1965; Fellow 1971 - 1988

 Le Souef, Albert Sherbourne (1877 - 1951)

Life Member 1945 - 1971

 Minton, Clive Dudley Thomas (1934 - 2019)

Vice-President 1989 - 1995

 McGill, Arnold Robert (1905 - 1988)

President 1958 - 1959; Fellow 1965 - 1988

 Whittell, Hubert Massey (1883 - 1954)

President 1941 - 1943

 Lane, Selwyn George (1922 - 2000)

Fellow 1983 - 1997

 Marchant, Stephen (1912 - 2003)

Fellow 1975 - 1997

 D. L. Serventy Medal, BirdLife Australia (1991 - )

Awarded the Medal 1991 - 1996

 Ashby, Edwin (1861 - 1941)

President 1925 - 1926

 Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)

President 1935 - 1936; Honorary Life Member 1949 - 1971

 Mellor, John White (1868 - 1931)

President 1911 - 1912

 Keast, James Allen (Allen) (1922 - 2009)

Fellow 1960 - 1997

 Paton, David Cleland

Member of Council 1995 - 1997

 Lendon, Alan Harding (1903 - 1973)

President 1966 - 1967

 Littlejohns, Raymond Trewolla (1893 - 1961)

Member of Council c.40 years; President 1959 - 1960

 Lord, Clive Errol (1889 - 1933)

President 1931 - 1932

 Mattingley, Arthur Herbert Evelyn (1870 - 1950)

President 1913 - 1914

 Barnard, Charles Ashmale (1867 - 1942)

President 1920 - 1921

 McGilp, John Neil (1881 - 1963)

President 1938 - 1939

 Hull, Arthur Francis Basset (1862 - 1945)

President 1919 - 1920

 Moncrieff, Perrine Millais (1893 - 1979)

President 1932 - 1933

 White, Samuel Albert (1870 - 1954)

President 1914 - 1916

 Ross, John Alexander (1868 - 1957)

President 1924 - 1925

 Rowley, Ian Cecil Robert (1926 - 2009)

Fellow 1989 - 1997

 Sharland, Michael (1899 - 1987)

President 1949 - 1951

 Wettenhall, Henry Norman Burgess (Norman) (1915 - 2000)

President 1978 - 1983; Fellow 1989 - 2000

 McEvey, Allan Reginald (1919 - 1996)

President 1968 - 1969; Fellow 1980 - 1996

 Condon, Herbert Thomas (1912 - 1978)

President 1961 - 1962, 1973 - 1974; Fellow 1973 - 1978

 Belcher, Charles Frederic (1876 - 1970)

Fellow 1949 - 1970

 Berney, Frederick Lee (1865 - 1949)

President 1933 - 1934

 Butler, Arthur Larchin (1862? - 1945)

President 1937 - 1938

 Campbell, Archibald James (1853 - 1929)

President 1928

 Cayley, Neville William (1886 - 1950)

President 1936- 1937

 Le Souef, Ernest Albert (1869 - 1937)

President 1930 - 1931

 Chenery, Arthur (1869 - 1948)

President 1930 - 1931

 Hitchcock, Warren Billingsley (1919 - 1984)

President 1962 - 1963

 Cooper, Roy Percy (1907 - 1976)

Member of Council for 34 years; President 1960 - 1961

 Davies, Stephen John James Frank (1935 - 2020)

President 1975 - 1978; Fellow 1980 - ; Director 1984 - 1989

 D'Ombrain, Ernest Arthur (c. 1867 - 1944)

President 1927 - 1928

 Falla, Robert Alexander (1901 - 1979)

President 1951 - 1952; Fellow 1973 - 1979

 Fletcher, Jane Ada (Ada) (1870 - 1956)

Life Member 1945 - 1956

 Hall, Robert (1867 - 1949)

President 1912 - 1913

 Hanks, Ernest Silverton (1892 - 1973)

Member of Council 1930 - 1968; President 1957 - 1958; Honorary Member 1970 - 1973

 Chalk, Aubrey Stubbing (1883 - 1957)

Treasurer 1941 - 1950; Life Member 1945 - 1957

 Mathews, Gregory Macalister (1876 - 1949) 1939

Gregory Mathews was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 1939, and served as its President from 1946 - 1947.

 Frith, Harold James (1921 - 1982) 1974 1982

In 1974 Harold Firth became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.

 BirdLife Australia Raptor Group (1979 - ) Australasian Wader Studies Group (1981 - ) Birds Australia (1997 - 2011)

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 'Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: 'The Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union Archive as a Source for the History of Science and the History of the Environment Dillon, P. J.; and Jones, E. L. 'The Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union Archive as a Source for the History of Science and the History of the Environment 1986 La Trobe Library Journal 10 38 29-32 Journal Article: RAOU Fellows: Citations RAOU Fellows: Citations 1974 The Emu 74 4 259 Thesis: A Body in Twain: the Royal Australasian Ornithological Union and the Events of 1969 Wallace, Ray A Body in Twain: the Royal Australasian Ornithological Union and the Events of 1969 Melbourne University of Melbourne 1990 Book: Index of species and authors [in "The emu"] volumes 61-70, 1961 - 1970 McGill, A. R. Index of species and authors [in "The emu"] volumes 61-70, 1961 - 1970 Melbourne Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1972 Book: Species index to "The emu" volumes 51-60, 1951 - 1960 McGill, A. R. Species index to "The emu" volumes 51-60, 1951 - 1960 Melbourne Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1962 Book: A species index to "The emu", volumes 1 to 50, 1901 - 1950 McGill, A. R. A species index to "The emu", volumes 1 to 50, 1901 - 1950 Melbourne Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1953 Journal Article: The first fifty years of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Dickison, D. J. The first fifty years of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1951 Emu 51 185-284 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001 Book Section: Conservation Through Knowledge: a Short History of the First National Ornithologists' Society in Australia Robin, Libby Conservation Through Knowledge: a Short History of the First National Ornithologists' Society in Australia Cambridge, Massachusetts Nuttall Ornithological Club 2012 Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, volume 2 Davis, William E., Recher, Harry F. and Boles, Walter E. 1-49 Book: Idling in green places: a life of Alec Chisholm McGregor, Russell Idling in green places: a life of Alec Chisholm North Melbourne Australian Scholarly Publishing 2019 Book Section: McGill, Arnold Robert (1905-1988), ornithologist and businessman Nixon, C. E. V. McGill, Arnold Robert (1905-1988), ornithologist and businessman Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2012 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z Melanie Nolan 74-5