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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-05-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000471b.htm person Hamlyn-Harris Ronald AACR2 1 September 1874 26 June 1953 Place of Birth Eastbourne, Sussex, England Place of Death Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Entomologist Ronald Hamlyn-Harris was Director of the Queensland Museum 1910-1917, a highlight of his tenure being the emphasis on ethnological and anthropological collecting and displays. During this period he published 20 anthropological papers. Between 1922 and 1924 He worked for the Australian Hookworm Campaign, having charge of its laboratory in Brisbane and conducting vector surveys throughout Queensland. As City Entomologist for the Brisbane City Council 1926-1934, the first such municipal appointment in Australia, he was largely concerned with the endemic filariasis problem. Hamlyn-Harris was subsequently Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Queensland 1936-1943. 1902 1902 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen, Germany 1903 1903 Life event - Migrated to Australia 1903 1910 Career position - Science master, Toowoomba Grammar School, Queensland 1906 1906 Career event - Foundation Member, Field Naturalists' Club of Queenland 1908 1908 Career position - Founding President, Toowoomba Field Naturalists' Club 1910 1917 Career position - Director, Queensland Museum 1916 1916 Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland 1919 1921 Career position - Foundation President, Stanthorpe Entomological Society 1922 1924 Career position - In charge of Australian Hookworm Campaign central laboratory, Brisbane 1926 1934 Career position - City Entomologist, City of Brisbane, Queensland 1936 1943 Career position - Lecturer in Zoology, University of Queensland Field Naturalists' Club of Queensland (1906 - 1922)

Foundation Member 1906

 Entomological Society of Queensland (1923 - )

President 1933

 Queensland Museum

Director 1910 - 1917

 Royal Society of Queensland (1884 - )

President 1916

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 'Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Musgrave, A. Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Sydney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1932 Book: A Time for a Museum: a History of the Queensland Museum Mather, Patricia A Time for a Museum: a History of the Queensland Museum Brisbane Queensland Museum 1986 Book Section: Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald (1874-1953), entomologist Marks, E. N. Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald (1874-1953), entomologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 177-178 Journal Article: Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history Turnbull, Paul Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history 2015 Museum & society 13 1 72-87 Journal Article: "A Centre of Scientific Work": Ronald Hamlyn-Harris and Ethnography at the Queensland Museum 1910-17 Burden, Gemmia "A Centre of Scientific Work": Ronald Hamlyn-Harris and Ethnography at the Queensland Museum 1910-17 2014 Journal of Australian Studies 38 87-102 Book Section: "Before it has become too late": the making and repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's official collection from British new Guinea Quinnell, Michael "Before it has become too late": the making and repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's official collection from British new Guinea Berghahn Books 2000 Hunting the gatherers: ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s - 1930s O'Hanlon, Michael and Welsch, Robert Louis 81-102 Ronald Hamlyn-Harris - Records Queensland Museum Library Ronald Hamlyn-Harris - Records 1910 - 1917 Material relating to Hamlyn-Harris in the official records of the Queensland Museum 1910-17. Ronald Hamlyn-Harris - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Ronald Hamlyn-Harris - Records MS 041 1934 - 1937 Manuscript notebook c1937 and personal memoranda 1934 [1 cm, MS 41/1]. 0.01 m