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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2002-12-17 human Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A002135b.htm corporateBody Adelaide Philosophical Society AACR2 Philosophical Society of Adelaide 10 January 1853 1880 Start Place Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Location South Australia, Australia Association Society or Membership Organisation Natural history The Adelaide Philosophical Society was founded in January 1853 for the purpose of providing means of association between people of similar interests, and to record information on natural phenomena occurring in the colony before it was lost to the records of science. One of the Society's objects was to promote the establishment of a museum to illustrate the natural history of the colony. There was a close association between the Society and the colony's museum, the South Australian Institute, founded in 1856. The year 1876, when Ralph Tate became a Member, marked a revival of the Society. Its journal, the Transactions and proceedings and report, was published in two volumes between 1877 and 1879. On being granted a Royal warrant, the Society became the Royal Society of South Australia in1880: the new Society continued to publish the Transactions. Other than Benjamin Babbage (President 1855) and Ralph Tate (1878 - 1880), all Presidents of the Society were the Governors of South Australia.

Governors of South Australia who served terms as President of the Society included: Henry Young (1853 - 1854); Richard MacDonnell (1856 - 1861); Dominic Daly (1862 - 1868); James Ferguson (1869 - 1872); Anthony Musgrave (1873 - 1876); and William Jervois (1877).

 Ellery, Robert Lewis John (1827 - 1908)

Elected as an Honorary Member 1876

 Elder, Thomas (1818 - 1897)

Elected as a Member 1871

 Lamb, Horace (1849 - 1934)

Elected as a Member 1876

 Schomburgk, Moritz Richard (1811 - 1891)

Elected as a Member 1865

 Todd, Charles (1826 - 1910)

Member 1856 - 1880

 Waterhouse, Frederick George (1815 - 1898)

Member 1859 - 1880; Vice-President 1869

 Wragge, Clement Lindley (1852 - 1922)

Member 1877 - 1878

 Tenison-Woods, Julian Edmund (1832 - 1889)

Elected as an Honorary Member 1877

 Babbage, Benjamin Herschel (1815 - 1878)

President 1855

 Verco, Joseph Cooke (1851 - 1933)

Fellow 1878 - 1880

 Macleay, William John (1820 - 1891)

Elected as an Honorary Member 1878

 Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825 - 1896)

Elected as an Honorary Member 1879

 Warburton, Peter Egerton (1813 - 1889)

Elected as an Honorary Member 1858

 Transactions and proceedings and report of the Adelaide Philosophical Society (1878 - 1879)

The Society published the journal 1877 - 1879

 Tate, Ralph (1840 - 1901)

President 1878 - 1880

 Clark, John Howard (1830 - 1878)

Active as a founder of the Adelaide Philosophical Society

 Tepper, Johann Gottlieb Otto (1841 - 1923)

Member 1878 - 1880

 Royal Society of South Australia (1880 - )

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 'Adelaide Philosophical Society', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Adelaide Philosophical Society Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Anniversary address Tate, Ralph Anniversary address 1878 Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia 1 11-47 Journal Article: Anniversary address of the President Tate, Ralph Anniversary address of the President 1880 Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia 3 xxxix-xliv Journal Article: List of Members, September 30th, 1879 Adelaide Philosophical Society List of Members, September 30th, 1879 1879 Transactions and proceedings and report of the Adelaide Philosophical Society 2 iv-vi 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: The Adelaide Philosophical Society and the Early Accommodation of the Darwin-Wallace Theory of Natural Selection Deveson, E. D. The Adelaide Philosophical Society and the Early Accommodation of the Darwin-Wallace Theory of Natural Selection 2013 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 137 151-67 Book Section: Geology Corbett, David W.P.; Cooper, B. J.; Mooney, P. M. Geology Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1986 Ideas and Endeavours - The Natural Sciences in South Australia C. R. Twidale; M. J. Tyler and M. Davies 29-67