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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2003-01-17 human Ailie Smith updated 2026-05-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A002200b.htm corporateBody Linnean Society of New South Wales AACR2 1874 Start Place Matraville, New South Wales, Australia Natural history Learned society The Linnean Society of New South Wales was founded in 1874 and incorporated in 1884. The Society promotes natural history in Australia. Entomological Society of New South Wales [I] (1862 - 1873) Cox, James Charles (1834 - 1912)

President 1881 - 1883; Member of Council 1874 - 1904

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

President 1936 - 1937

 Troughton, Ellis Le Geyt (1893 - 1974)

President 1943 - 1944

 Vincent, James Matthew (1911 - 2000)

President 1953 - 1954, 1961 - 1962

 Walkom, Arthur Bache (1889 - 1976)

President 1941 - 1942; Honorary Secretary 1952 - 1966

 Waterhouse, Walter Lawry (1887 - 1969)

President 1935 - 1936

 Maiden, Joseph Henry (1859 - 1925)

President 1901 - 1903; Member of Council 1887 - 1922

 Dun, William Sutherland (1868 - 1934)

President 1913 - 1915

 Steel, Thomas (1858 - 1925)

Member of Council 1897 - 1925; President 1905 - 1907

 Adam, Paul (1951 - )

President 2025 - 2026

 Brazier, John William (1842 - 1930)

Foundation Member 1874; Member of Council 1880 - 1896

 Johnson, Lawrence Alexander Sidney (Lawrie) (1925 - 1997)

President 1967 - 1968, 1971 - 1972

 Shaw, Alfred Eland (1861 - 1931)

Member 1922 - 1931

 Watts, William Walter (1856 - 1920)

Fellow 1899 - 1920

 Crocker, Robert Langdon (1914 - 1963)

Member of Council 1956 - 1962

 Froggatt, Walter Wilson (1858 - 1937)

President 1911 - 1913

 Veitch, Robert (1890 - 1972)

Fellow 1917 -

 Stead, David George (1877 - 1957)

Member 1898 - 1957

 Linnean Macleay Fellowship (1905 - )

The Society has awarded the Fellowship since 1905

 Musgrave, Anthony (1895 - 1959)

Member 1920 - 1959

 Pope, Elizabeth (1912 - 1993)

President 1964 - 1965

 Osborn, Theodore George Bentley (1887 - 1973)

President 1932

 Lee, David Joseph (1915 - 1990)

President 1950 - 1951

 Woodhill, Anthony Reeve (1900 - 1965)

President 1946 - 1947

 Stephens, William John (1829 - 1890)

President 1877 - 1879, 1885 - 1890

 Hunt, Fanny (1863 - 1941)

Life Member

 Carolin, Roger Charles (1929 - 2025)

President 1968

 Chambers, Thomas Carrick (1930 - 2023)

Member of Council 1988 - 1992

 Colefax, Alan Neville (1908 - 1961)

Member 1931 - 1961; President 1951 - 1952

 Laporte, François Louis (1810 - 1880)

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Stephenson, Neville George (1916 - 1994)

President 1970 - 1971

 Anderson, Robert Henry (1899 - 1969)

President 1940 - 1941; Honorary Secretary 1966 - 1969

 Smithers, Courtenay Neville (1925 - 2011)

President 1983 - 1984

 Fraser, Lilian Ross (c. 1908 - 1987)

President 1948 - 1949, 1957 - 1957

 Osborne, George Davenport (1899 - 1955)

President 1947 - 1948

 Anderson, Charles (1876 - 1944)

President 1932 - 1933

 Browne, William Rowan (1884 - 1975)

President 1928 - 1929

 Burkitt, Arthur Neville St George Handcock (1891 - 1959)

President 1933 - 1934

 Cogger, Harold George (Hal) (1935 - )

President 1972 - 1973

 Harrison, Launcelot (1880 - 1928)

President 1927 - 1928

 Whitelegge, Thomas (1850 - 1927)

Member of Council 1890 - 1896

 Darnell-Smith, George Percy (1868 - 1942)

Member 1909 - 1942

 Collie, Robert (1839 - 1892)

Member of the Society; Collie bequeathed his herbarium and library to the Society

 Roughley, Theodore Cleveland (1888 - 1961)

Member of Council 1931 - 1956; President 1938 - 1939

 Ramsay, Edward Pierson (1842 - 1916)

Member of Council 1874 - 1882 and 1885 - 1890

 Dwyer, Joseph Wilfrid (1869 - 1939)

Member 1920 - 1939

 Whitley, Gilbert Percy (1903 - 1975)

President 1963 - 1964

 Andrews, Ernest Clayton (1870 - 1948)

President 1937 - 1938

 Daintree, Edwin (1814 - 1887)

Edwin Daintree was a founder of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

 Deane, Henry (1847 - 1924)

President 1885 - 1887

 Holmes, James Macdonald (1896 - 1966)

President 1939 - 1940

 Briggs, Barbara Gillian (1934 - )

President 1976 - 1977

 Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare (1853 - 1936)

President 1907 - 1909; Member of Council 1894 - 1936.

 Smith-White, Spencer (1909 - 1998)

President 1958 - 1959

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

President 1949 -1950

 Hull, Arthur Francis Basset (1862 - 1945)

President 1923 - 1924

 Musson, Charles Tucker (1856 - 1928)

Fellow 1888 - 1928

 Curtis, Charles M. (1795 - )

Charles Curtis drew insects for the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

 Vallance, Thomas George (1928 - 1993)

President 1959 - 1960, 1968 - 1969, 1974 - 1975 and 1988 - 1989

 Waite, Edgar Ravenswood (1866 - 1928)

Member of Council 1904 - 1906

 Cheel, Edwin (1872 - 1951)

President 1930 - 1931

 Bailey, Frederick Manson (1827 - 1915)

Corresponding Member 1879 - 1915

 Ferguson, Eustace William (1884 - 1927)

President 1922 - 1923

 Haswell, William Aitcheson (1854 - 1925)

President 1891 - 1893

 Sloane, Thomas Gibson (1858 - 1932)

Member of Council 1890 - 1891

 Chapman, Henry George (1879 - 1934)

President 1917 - 1919

 Hedley, Charles (1862 - 1926)

President 1909 - 1911; Member of Council 1897 - 1924

 Wilson, James Thomas (1861 - 1945)

President 1897 - 1899

 David, Tannatt William Edgeworth (1858 - 1934)

President 1893 - 1895

 Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw (1852 - 1941)

President 1915 - 1917

 Woolls, William (1814 - 1893)

Member of Council 1891 - 1892

 Baker, Richard Thomas (1854 - 1941)

Member of Council 1897 - 1922

 Macarthur, William (1800 - 1882)

Member of Council 1874 - 1878

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

President 1921 - 1923

 Etheridge, Robert (Junior) (1847 - 1920)

Member of Council 1889 - 1894

 May, William Lewis (1861 - 1925)

Fellow 1902 - 1925

 Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)

Member of Council 1912 - 1920

 Cambage, Richard Hind (1859 - 1928)

President 1924 - 1925

 Brown, Ida Alison (1900 - 1976)

President 1945 - 1946

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

President 1934 - 1935

 Carter, Herbert James (1858 - 1940)

President 1925 - 1926

 McKie, Ernest Norman (1882 - 1948) Fletcher, Joseph James (1850 - 1926)

Secretary and Director 1886 - 1919; President 1919 - 1921; Editor, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1886 - 1919

 Tenison-Woods, Julian Edmund (1832 - 1889)

President 1879 - 1881

 Murray, Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald (1900 - 1967)

Fellow 1924 - 1967

 Liversidge, Archibald (1846 - 1927)

Member of Council 1875 - 1876

Trove

 'Linnean Society of New South Wales', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Linnean Society of New South Wales Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Report: The work of the Division of Economic Entomology for the year 1928-29 Tillyard, R.J. The work of the Division of Economic Entomology for the year 1928-29 Melbourne Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia) 1929 Journal Article: "A Society of Natural History. I hope they may succeed." - the first hundred years Robertson, R. N. "A Society of Natural History. I hope they may succeed." - the first hundred years 1974 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 99 1 69-78 Journal Article: On the dates of publication of the early volumes of the Society's Proceedings Fletcher, J. J. On the dates of publication of the early volumes of the Society's <span style="font-style:italic">Proceedings</span> 1896 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2 10 4 533-6 Journal Article: A key to the memorial series of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (1928 - 1978) Vallance, T. G. A key to the memorial series of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (1928 - 1978) 1979 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 103 1 133-4 Book: The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales: index to volumes I-L (1875 - 1925) Anon The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales: index to volumes I-L (1875 - 1925) Sydney Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Ltd 1929 Book: The Linnean Society of New South Wales (founded 1874) for "the cultivation and study of the science of natural history in all its branches": historical notes of its first fifty years (jubilee publication) Walkom, A. B. The Linnean Society of New South Wales (founded 1874) for "the cultivation and study of the science of natural history in all its branches": historical notes of its first fifty years (jubilee publication) Sydney Australasian Medical Publishing Company 1925 Journal Article: The Society's heritage from the Macleays, part ii Fletcher, J. J.; edited by A. B. Walkom The Society's heritage from the Macleays, part ii 1929 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales liv 3 185-272 Journal Article: Presidential address: the Society's heritage from the Macleays Fletcher, J.J. Presidential address: the Society's heritage from the Macleays 1920 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45 4 567-635 Journal Article: The story of Science House and the history of the Linnean Society of New South Wales Martin, Helene The story of Science House and the history of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2015 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 137 57-70 Book Section: From Gentlemen Naturalists to Professional Scientists - the Changing Nature of the Linnean Society in Sydney Augee, M. L. From Gentlemen Naturalists to Professional Scientists - the Changing Nature of the Linnean Society in Sydney Mosman, N.S.W. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2010 The Natural History of Sydney Lunney, Daniel, Hutchings, Pat A and Hochuli, Dieter 56-58 Linnean Society of New South Wales - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Linnean Society of New South Wales - Records ML MSS 2009 1826 - 1970 Includes: Minute books, 1862-1952; correspondence, 1882-1965 including letter books, 1882-1927; Chronological file, 1882-1967; Numbered files and unnumbered files; miscellanea, 1884-1964; financial papers, 1883-1970; library material, 1882-1959; newspaper cuttings, 1867-1970; various individual collections donated to the Society include papers of G. Bennett, 1866; H. H. B. Bradley, 1865-1877; J. W. Brazier, 1860-1867, 1922; S. Covington, 1831-1836, 1839; R. D. Fitzgerald, 1878-1883; J. J. Fletcher, 1887-1891, 1929; Sir William Flower, 1866; A. G. Hamilton, 1878-1941; A. Macleay, 1835+; Sir William Macleay, 1874-1888; W. S. Macleay, 1826-1862; T. G. Sloane, 1920-1932; Baron Von Mueller, 1884-1894, and W. Wools, 1880-1881. 56 volumes, 50 boxes, 1 folder, 1 case