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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-22 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002221b.htm person Berry Richard James Arthur AACR2 30 May 1867 30 September 1962 Place of Birth Upholland, Lancashire, England Place of Death Bristol, England Anatomist Anthropologist Richard Berry was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne 1905-1929. He wrote several books, including "Practical Anatomy" in 1914, which remained the text for Melbourne students for 25 years.

Educated at Edinburgh (MB, ChM 1891, MD 1894). FRCS (Edinburgh). MD, (ad. eund.), University of Melbourne 1906. Apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers in Liverpool for several years; house-surgeon, Royal Infirmary 1891-95; lecturer in anatomy, school of medicine, Royal Colleges 1896-1905; Professor of Anatomy, University of Melbourne, 1906-29; consulting psychiatrist to the Melbourne and children's hospitals; director of medical services, Stoke Park Colony, Bristol, England 1929-40. Designed a new building for the Department of Anatomy, University of Melbourne, opened in 1923 and known as 'Berry's Folly' because of its size.

1914 1914 Career position - Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section H (Anthropology), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting 1921 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Anthropology), Australian National Research Council The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Professor of Anatomy, 1906 -1929

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

Foundation Member (Anthropology) 1921 -

 British Association for the Advancement of Science 84th Meeting (1914)

Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section H (Anthropology) 1914

 Luschan, Felix von (1854 - 1924)

Hosted a presentation by von Luschen title 'Culture and degeneration'

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 'Berry, Richard James Arthur', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Berry, Richard James Arthur Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940 Carey, Jane No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940 Penrith, New South Wales Australian Women's History Network 2001 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 10 153-172 Book: The Melbourne Medical School 1862-1962 Russell, K. F. The Melbourne Medical School 1862-1962 Melbourne 1977 Book Section: Berry, Richard James Arthur (1867-1962), anatomist, neurologist and anthropologist Russell, K. F. Berry, Richard James Arthur (1867-1962), anatomist, neurologist and anthropologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 276-277 Journal Article: Craniometry and Eugenics in Australia: R. J. A. Berry and the Quest for Social Efficiency Cawte, Mary Craniometry and Eugenics in Australia: R. J. A. Berry and the Quest for Social Efficiency 1986 Historical Studies 22 86 35-53 Book Section: Human remains Jones, Ross L. Human remains Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press 2024 Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton 95-106 Book: A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania Pybus, Cassandra A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania Sydney Allen & Unwin 2024 Journal Article: The Melbourne Medical School and some of Its "characters" 1931 - 1975 Sunderland, Sydney The Melbourne Medical School and some of Its "characters" 1931 - 1975 1992 Chiron: journal of the University of Melbourne Medical Society 2 2 45-52 Journal Article: Obituaries: Arthur Hamilton Tebbutt, Adolph Bolliger, Richard James Arthur Berry and William Norman Little Obituaries: Arthur Hamilton Tebbutt, Adolph Bolliger, Richard James Arthur Berry and William Norman Little 1963 Medical Journal of Australia 1 12 444-448 Book: A doctor in the garden: nomen medici in botanicis: Australian flora and the world of medicine Pearn, John Hemsley A doctor in the garden: nomen medici in botanicis: Australian flora and the world of medicine Herston, Qld Amphion Press 2001