Johnston, Thomas Harvey

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English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2026-04-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001089b.htm person Johnston Thomas Harvey AACR2 9 December 1881 30 August 1951 Place of Birth Balmain, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Biologist Parasitologist Harvey Johnston was Professor of Biology, University of Queensland 1919-1922 and Controller of the Commonwealth Prickly Pear Laboratories 1920-1923. He was Professor of Zoology, University of Adelaide from 1922 and travelled to Antarctica with Douglas Mawson 1929-1931.

T. Harvey Johnston was a biologist and parasitologist whose expertise in helminths was recognised world-wide, and who was integral to early efforts to control prickly pear. He was the first Lecturer in biology appointed to the University of Queensland and the first Professor of Zoology at University of Adelaide, 1922 - 1951, while concurrently Professor of Botany, 1928 - 1934. Between 1929 and 1931 he was Chief Zoologist of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Douglas Mawson. He made numerous collecting trips into outback South Australia with John Cleland 1929 - 1937. The Australian Helminth Collection assembled by Johnston was bequeathed to South Australian Museum.

1906 1906 Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Sydney 1907 1907 Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Sydney 1909 1911 Career position - Assistant Microbiologist, New South Wales Department of Health 1911 1911 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Sydney 1911 1918 Career position - Lecturer in Charge, Department of Biology, University of Queensland 1913 1913 Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne 1915 1916 Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland 1916 1917 Career position - President, Field Naturalists Club of Queensland 1919 1922 Career position - Professor of Biology, University of Queensland 1920 1923 Career position - Controller, Laboratories, Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board 1921 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Zoology), Australian National Research Council 1922 1951 Career position - Professor of Zoology, University of Adelaide 1923 1923 Career position - President, Section D (Biology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1928 1934 Career position - Professor of Botany, University of Adelaide 1929 1931 Career position - Chief Zoologist, British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1931 1932 Career Position - President, Royal Society of South Australia 1935 1935 Award - Sir Joseph Verco Medal, Royal Society of South Australia 1937 1937 Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) 1939 1939 Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Cleland, Elizabeth Robson (1910 - 2005) Angel, Laura Madeline (Madeline) (1908 - 1990) Mawson, Patricia Marietje (1915 - 1999) Royal Society of South Australia (1880 - )

President 1931 - 1932

Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1930 - )

Fellow 1937 -

Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

President, Section D (Biology) 1923

Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Foundation Member (Zoology) 1921 -

South Australian Museum (1940 - )

Johnston bequeathed the Australian Helminth Collection to the South Australian Museum 1951

Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board (1919 - 1935)

Controller, Laboratories 1920 - 1923

The University of Queensland (1910 - )

Professor of Biology 1919 - 1922

Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (1904 - 2006)

Awarded the Medal 1939

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

Awarded the Medal 1935

Board of Anthropological Research (1926 - 1974)

Johnston participated in eight expeditions 1930 - 1939

Field Naturalists' Club of Queensland (1906 - 1922)

President 1916 - 1917

David Syme Research Prize, The University of Melbourne (1904 - )

Awarded the Prize 1913

The University of Adelaide (1874 - 2026)

Professor of Zoology, 1922 - 1951; Professor of Botany, 1928 - 1934

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'Johnston, Thomas Harvey', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Johnston, Thomas Harvey Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Newspaper Article: Medal Awards - For Antarctic Research Expedition Medal Awards - For Antarctic Research Expedition 1934 The Canberra Times 2 Journal Article: List of Titles of the Published Works of Thomas Harvey Johnston, MA, DSc Earley, C.M. List of Titles of the Published Works of Thomas Harvey Johnston, MA, DSc 1952 Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 75-6 i-ix Journal Article: Professor T. Harvey Johnston. Memorial Lecture Sandars, Dorothea F. Professor T. Harvey Johnston. Memorial Lecture 1952 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 64 57-68 Book Section: Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881-1951), biologist and parasitologist Sandars, Dorothea F. Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881-1951), biologist and parasitologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 501 Journal Article: Obituary: Professor T. Harvey Johnston Obituary: Professor T. Harvey Johnston 1951 Australian Journal of Science 14 3 89 Book: Trematoda Johnston, T. Harvey Trematoda Sydney Government Printer 1937 Journal Article: A Hundred Years of Zoology in South Australia Johnston, T. Harvey A Hundred Years of Zoology in South Australia 1936 Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia lx xli-lv Journal Article: Frederick Manson Bailey, CMG, FLS Presidential Address Johnston, T. Harvey Frederick Manson Bailey, CMG, FLS Presidential Address 1916 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 28 3-10 Book: Report on the Prickly Pear Travelling Commission, 1st Nov 1912 - 30th April 1914 Johnston, T. Harvey and Tryon, Henry Report on the Prickly Pear Travelling Commission, 1st Nov 1912 - 30th April 1914 Brisbane Government Printer 1914 Journal Article: Biological control of the prickly-pear pest Johnston, T. H. Biological control of the prickly-pear pest 1921 Queensland agricultural journal 16 2 65-8 Book: Cestoda Johnston, T. Harvey Cestoda Sydney Government Printer 1937 Journal Article: Larval trematodes from Australian terrestrial and freshwater molluscs, part 3: Leucochloridium australiense n.sp. Johnston, T. H. and Cleland, E. R. Larval trematodes from Australian terrestrial and freshwater molluscs, part 3: Leucochloridium australiense n.sp. 1938 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 62 25-33 Book: Ticks (Ixodoidea) Johnston, T. Harvey Ticks (Ixodoidea) Sydney Government Printer 1937 Book: Parasitic nematoda Johnston, T. Harvey Parasitic nematoda Sydney Government Printer 1938 Book: Acanthocephala Johnston, T. Harvey; and Best, Effie Acanthocephala Sydney Government Printer 1938 Journal Article: The late Professor S. B. J. Skertchly Longman, H. A. The late Professor S. B. J. Skertchly 1926 Queensland naturalist 5 70-2 Journal Article: Strongyle nematodes from Central Australian kangaroos and wallabies Johnston, T. Harvey and Mawson, P. M. Strongyle nematodes from Central Australian kangaroos and wallabies 1938 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 62 263-86 Journal Article: Some ascarid nematodes from Australian marine fish Johnston, T. H. and Mawson, Patricia M. Some ascarid nematodes from Australian marine fish 1942 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 67 20-35 Journal Article: The morphology and life history of the trematode, Dolichopera macalpini Nicoll. Johnston, T. Harvey and Angel, L. Madeline The morphology and life history of the trematode, Dolichopera macalpini Nicoll. 1940 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65 2 376-87 Journal Article: The morphology and life cycle of the trematode, Apatemon intermedias, from the black swan Johnston, T. H. and Angel, L. Madeline The morphology and life cycle of the trematode, Apatemon intermedias, from the black swan 1951 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 74 1 66-78 Journal Article: Larval trematodes from Australian terrestrial and freshwater molluscs, part 1-2 Johnston, T. H. and Cleland, E. R. Larval trematodes from Australian terrestrial and freshwater molluscs, part 1-2 1937 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 61 191-206 Journal Article: The biological control of the prickly pear Dodd. A. P. The biological control of the prickly pear 1927 Journal of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1 48-54 Journal Article: Section D - Biology. The Australian prickly pear problem [presidential address] Johnston, T. H. Section D - Biology. The Australian prickly pear problem [presidential address] 1924 Report of the sixteenth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1923 16 347-401 Journal Article: Memorial lecture: Professor T. Harvey Johnston, first Professor of Biology in the University of Queensland Sandars, D. F. Memorial lecture: Professor T. Harvey Johnston, first Professor of Biology in the University of Queensland 1954 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 64 57-68 Book: Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 Gregory, Helen Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 St Lucia University of Queensland Library 1987 Journal Article: Prickly Pear Land: Transnational Networks in Settler Australia Frawley, Jodi Prickly Pear Land: Transnational Networks in Settler Australia 2007 Australian Historical Studies 38 130 323-38 Book Section: Zoology Edmonds, S. J. Zoology 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 161-212 Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records 632.5/J73p 1908 - 1938 Manuscript material including bibliography of T.H. Johnston, notes and notebooks, correspondence 1913-25; original manuscripts of articles and speeches later published, paintings, photographs and specimens, published articles by Johnston; mainly printed material including material on the establishment of the Prickly-pear Commission with progress reports and reports on visits and to parliament, collected articles and newspaper articles and maps; overall dates 1908-38 [85 cm, 632.5/J73p Strongroom]. 0.85 m Photographs Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records South Australian Museum Archives Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records A.D. 37 1914 - 1930 Notes on Buddhism, Hinduism and Tibetan customs; lecture notes on Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and the Inca civilization; notes on the Australian Aborigines used in lectures and broadcasting; extracts from miscellaneous authors featuring vocabularies; letter from R. Trotter 1930; typescript entitled 'Across the Andes' 1914; and other material; overall dates 1914-30 [A.D. 37]. Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records South Australian Museum Archives Thomas Harvey Johnston - Records 164AAE and others 1929 - 1931 Correspondence 1929-31 with Mawson when Johnston was editor of the 'Biological Reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14' [Series 164AAE]. The following are records created by Johnston as Chief Biologist on the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-31. Plankton register kept while on board "S.Y. Discovery" 1929-31 [1 volume, Series 8BZE]. Register of plants collected 1929-30 [20 pages, Series 9 BZE]. Oceanographic stations - records of observations taken by scientific staff 1929-30 [3 volumes, Series 10BZE]. Material distribution books recording the distribution of biological specimens c1932-40 [4 volumes, Series 13BZE]. Register of packed boxes recording the location of biological specimens 1930-31 [1 volume, 12BZE]. Diary of the journey on the "S.Y. Discovery" 1929-31 [1 volume, 15BZE]. Articles on Antarctic biology for press release 1929-31 [few items, Series 43BZE]. Correspondence with D. Mawson 1929 [few items, 52BZE]. Correspondence with D. Mawson regarding the biological reports for the expedition 1930-51 [1 box, 64BZE]. Mammal report 1930-33 and 1948 including publications, rough notes, newspaper cuttings and correspondence [1 packet, Series 65BZE]. Correspondence regarding biological specimen collection and reports 1932-51 [about 1 cm, Series 67BZE]. Inventory and despatch details regarding zoological and biological collections c1930-1950 [4 cm, Series 68BZE]. Correspondence with contributors to the biological reports 1933-51 [2 cm, Series 69BZE]. Editor's record of biological reports published 1936-51 [4 cm, Series 78BZE]. Whale and seal observations 1929-31 [4 cm, Series 81BZE]. 0.15 m, 16 volumes