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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2024-12-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001183b.htm person MacDonald Alexander Cameron AACR2 9 August 1828 18 June 1917 Place of Birth Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Prahran, Victoria, Australia Surveyor Alexander MacDonald settled in Geelong, Victoria in 1850 and was the local agent for the Provident Institute of Victoria. He was a prominent member of the Geelong and Western District Agricultural and Horticultural Society and the Geographical Society of Australasia. 1888 Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1893 1893 Career position - President, Section E (Geography), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

Original [founding] member 1888 - ; President, Section E (Geography) 1893

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 'MacDonald, Alexander Cameron', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology MacDonald, Alexander Cameron Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Macdonald, Alexander Cameron (1828-1917), accountant, surveyor and geographer MacDonald, Colin Macdonald, Alexander Cameron (1828-1917), accountant, surveyor and geographer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1974 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q Douglas Pike 144-145 Journal Article: Some account of past explorations in New Guinea, and the work undertaken by the Geographical Society of Australasia to explore the great island Macdonald, A, C. Some account of past explorations in New Guinea, and the work undertaken by the Geographical Society of Australasia to explore the great island 1892 Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch 3 81-8 Alexander Cameron MacDonald - Records Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Alexander Cameron MacDonald - Records 1855 - 1923 Correspondence with various 19th and early 20th century Australian scientists, minutes, manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and publications; minutes of the Victorian branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia 1883-96 (2 volumes) including letters and cuttings; manuscript entitled 'Mysteries of the Pacific' (1903) with manuscript and printed material by MacDonald relating to the early history of Australia; lists of Aboriginal words, correspondence concerning Aboriginal place names and vocabularies, press cutting on Aborigines; pamphlets mostly on historical and geographical subjects; obituaries and biographical cuttings; cutting book containing a series of articles entitled 'Old Melbourne' published in "Truth" 1909-10; overall dates 1855-1923 [61 cm]. 0.61 m Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch - Records A38 Letter book. Includes correspondence between Mueller and E. Strickland, A. C. Macdonald, J. Chalmers and T. Bevan.