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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2002-12-17 human Ailie Smith updated 2026-05-21 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A002134b.htm corporateBody Royal Society of South Australia AACR2 1880 Start Place Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Location South Australia, Australia Association Society or Membership Organisation Natural history The Royal Society of South Australia (RSSA) succeeded the Adelaide Philosophical Society (APS) in 1880 when the latter received its Royal warrant. The objects of the RSSA were broadly the same as its predecessor: the advancement and promotion of knowledge of science, particularly the natural sciences, as they related to South Australia. Interests of members include botany, zoology, geology, geomorphology, palaeontology, anthropology and soil science. Some of these interests found expression in the foundation of sections. The most enduring was the Field Naturalists' Section, founded 1883, which in 1959 separated from the Society as the Field Naturalists Club of South Australia. Other Sections were: the Microscopical Section (1887 - 1913); the Malacological Section (1895 - 1917), which became the Shell Collectors Committee of the Field Naturalists Section; and the Astronomical Section, founded 1892 and becoming the Astronomical Society of South Australia after eight years. Awards presented by the Society include: the Sir Joseph Verco Medal, awarded to a member of the Society for distinguished scientific investigations; and the H. G. Andrewartha Medal, inaugurated in 2003 and awarded occasionally for outstanding published research by a scientist in an early stage of their scientific career. The Society has published (under slightly variant titles) its Transactions in continuation of those of the APS. Royal Societies of Australia (2007 - ) Adelaide Philosophical Society (1853 - 1880) Waterhouse, Frederick George (1815 - 1898)

Fellow 1880 - 1882

 Rogers, Richard Sanders (c. 1861 - 1942)

Member of Council 1907 - 1922; President 1921

 Tepper, Johann Gottlieb Otto (1841 - 1923)

Member 1880 - 1912; Honorary Member 1912 - 1923

 Fenner, Charles Albert Edward (1884 - 1955)

President 1930 - 1931: Member of Council 1924 - 1933

 Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881 - 1951)

President 1931 - 1932

 Prescott, James Arthur (1890 - 1987)

President 1932 - 1933

 Mais, Henry Coathupe (1827 - 1916)

President 1884 - 1885; donated his extensive library to the Society.

 Campbell, Thomas Draper (1893 - 1967)

Fellow 1922 - 1967; President 1934 - 1935

 Cotton, Bernard Charles (1905 - 1966)

Fellow 1929 - 1966; President 1951 - 1952

 Madigan, Cecil Thomas (1889 - 1947)

President 1935 - 1936

 Tindale, Norman Barnett (1900 - 1993)

President 1949

 Andrewartha, Herbert George (1907 - 1992)

President 1952

 Blackburn, Thomas (1844 - 1912)

President 1889 - 1891

 Howchin, Walter (1845 - 1937)

President 1894 -1896

 Verco, Joseph Cooke (1851 - 1933)

President 1903 - 1921; Fellow 1880 - 1933

 Black, John McConnell (1855 - 1951)

President 1933 - 1934 and 1942; ; Honorary Life Member 1945 - 1951

 Webb, Bruce Phillip (1926 - 2000)

President 1977

 Mawson, Patricia Marietje (1915 - 1999)

Member of Council 1976 - 1991

 Bragg, William Henry (1862 - 1942) Basedow, Herbert (1881 - 1933)

Fellow 1904 - 1933

 Chapman, Robert William (1866 - 1942)

Fellow 1907 - 1942; Member of Council 1914 - 1922.

 Ashby, Edwin (1861 - 1941)

- Member of Council 1900-- 1919; Vice-President 1919 - 1921

 Lothian, Thomas Robert Noel (Noel) (1915 - 2004)

President 1958 - 1960

 Lea, Arthur Mills (1868 - 1932)

Member of Council 1923 - 1932

 Fisher, Robert Hilson (Bob) (1922 - 2007)

Honorary Fellow 1988 - 2007

 Mitchell, Francis John (1929 - 1970)

President 1968 - 1969

 Womersley, John (1920 - 1985)

President 1984

 Whittell, Horatio Thomas (Thomas) (1826 - 1899)

President 1882 - 1883

 Cleland, William Lennox (1847 - 1918)

President 1896 - 1899

 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (1880 - )

Publisher 1880 -

 Ward, Leonard Keith (1879 - 1964)

President, 1928 - 1930; Honorary Fellow 1955 - 1964

 McArthur, Archibald John (Archie) (1922 - 2016)

Member of Council 2008 - 2012

 Wilson, Kerrie Ann

Awarded the H. G. Andrewartha Medal 2014

 Symon, David Eric (1920 - 2011)

Fellow 1962 - 2011

 Pulleine, Robert Henry (1869 - 1935)

President 1922 - 1924

 Ling, John Kynaston (1931 - )

President 1979

 Bonython, Charles Warren (1916 - 2012)

President 1980 - 1981

 Hale, Herbert Mathew (1895 - 1963)

President 1936 - 1937

 Davidson, James (1885 - 1945)

President 1938

 Daily, Brian (1931 - 1986)

President 1966

 Wood, Joseph Garnet (1900 - 1959)

President 1942

 Southcott, Ronald Vernon (1918 - 1998)

President 1955 and 1961

 Sir Joseph Verco Medal, Royal Society of South Australia (1928 - )

Inaugurated the Medal 1928

 Davies, Margaret (1944 - )

President 1994 - 1996; Honorary Life Member 1998 -

 Tyler, Michael James (1937 - 2020)

President 1985 - 1986

 Kleindorfer, Sonia M.

Vice President 2018 -

 Parkin, Leslie Wedgwood (Lee) (1916 - 2013)

President 1958

 Ludbrook, Nelly Hooper (1907 - 1995)

President 1961 - 1962

 Fry, Henry Kenneth (1886 - 1959)

President 1939

 Rennie, Edward Henry (1852 - 1927)

President 1885 - 1888 and 1899 - 1903

 Waite, Edgar Ravenswood (1866 - 1928)

Vice-President 1927 - 1928

 Pring, Allan

President 2006-2008

 Piper, Clarence Sherwood (1903 - 1988)

President 1945 - 1946

 Trumble, Hugh Christian (1903 - 1960)

President 1947

 Williams, William David (1936 - )

President 1992 - 1994

 Tate, Ralph (1840 - 1901)

President 1891 - 1894

 Womersley, Hugh Bryan Spencer (Bryan) (1922 - 2011)

President 1966 - 1967

 Lamb, Horace (1849 - 1934)

President 1883 - 1884

 Mawson, Douglas (1882 - 1958)

President 1924 - 1925 and 1945

 Stirling, Edward Charles (Ted) (1848 - 1919)

President 1888 - 1889

 Osborn, Theodore George Bentley (1887 - 1973)

President 1925 - 1926; Honorary Fellow 1955 - 1973

 Jones, Frederic Wood (1879 - 1954)

President 1926 - 1927

 Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)

President 1927 - 1928 and 1940 - 1941; Honorary Fellow 1949 - 1971

 Cooke, William Ternent (1877 - 1957)

President 1943

 Womersley, Herbert (1889 - 1962)

President 1943 - 1944; Honorary Fellow 1962

 Todd, Charles (1826 - 1910)

President 1881 - 1882

 Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia (1883 - 1959)

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 'Royal Society of South Australia', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Royal Society of South Australia Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The Role of Geology in the Activities of the Royal Society of South Australia. Mawson, D. The Role of Geology in the Activities of the Royal Society of South Australia. 1954 Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia lxxvii xii-xiv Journal Article: Scientific Societies in Australia. A Brief History of the Royal Society of South Australia Scott, T. D. Scientific Societies in Australia. A Brief History of the Royal Society of South Australia 1960 The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings 27 493-496 Journal Article: Presidential address: a history of the Society, particularly its relation to other institutions in the state Rogers, R. S. Presidential address: a history of the Society, particularly its relation to other institutions in the state 1922 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 46 615-46 Journal Article: The past work of the Royal Society outside the domain of Natural Science. Chapman, R. W. The past work of the Royal Society outside the domain of Natural Science. 1936 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 60 xxv-xxx Journal Article: Anniversary address by the President: some work of the Society since 1876 Tate, R. Anniversary address by the President: some work of the Society since 1876 1895 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19 266-9 Journal Article: List of Fellows, members, etc. as existing on November, 30 1936 Anon List of Fellows, members, etc. as existing on November, 30 1936 1936 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 60 195-8 Journal Article: The Past, Present and Future of the Society, and its Relations to the Welfare and Progress of the State. Madigan, C.T. The Past, Present and Future of the Society, and its Relations to the Welfare and Progress of the State. 1936 Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia lx i-xv Journal Article: Reminiscences of the Early Days of 'the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of SA Cleland, J.B. Reminiscences of the Early Days of 'the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of SA 1969 South Australian Naturalist 44 2 21-23 Royal Society of South Australia - Records State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana Royal Society of South Australia - Records SRG 10 1853 - 1969 Records of the Royal Society of South Australia, comprising minutes, correspondence, membership lists, annual reports, papers presented to the Society, rules, financial papers, photographs, membership list for 1939, papers relating to the Verco estate, notes to assist treasurers, cash book, papers relating to the Howchin estate, petty cash, stamps and letterbook (3 in 1), membership/subscription book and other papers. 3.55 m