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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2025-04-22 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002301b.htm person Conder William Jacomb AACR2 1832 1 December 1890 Place of Birth Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England Place of Death Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia Surveyor William Conder was the Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey of New South Wales during the 1860s and 1870s. In 1878, William carried out critical astronomical observations associated with the determination of the NSW/Queensland border. In 1882 he was a member of the expedition to Lord Howe Island to observe the transit of Venus, and in 1886 attended the first meeting to consider forming an Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. 1850s 1850s Life event - Arrived in Victoria 1865 1865 Career event - Appointed Licensed Surveyor, Department of Lands, New South Wales c. 1881 c. 1881 Career position - Vice president, New South Wales Institute of Surveyors 1881 1881 Career event - Committee member, Astronomy physical science section, Royal Society of New South Wales 1882 1882 Career position - Member, Board of examiners, Licensed Surveyors, Crown Land Act, New South Wales 1882 1882 Career event - Observations on Lord Howe Island of the transit of Venus [with T F Furber] 1883 1883 Career event - Attended an Intercolonial Conference of Surveyors, Melbourne 1886 1886 Career event - Attended founding meeting, Sydney, New South Wales 1887 1887 Career position - Chairman, Local land board, Cooma 1888 Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1890 1890 Career position - Chairman, Board of Inquiry into Local Land Boards, New South Wales Furber, Thomas Frederick (1855 - 1924)

They conducted observations from Lord Howe Island of the transit of Venus 1882

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

Original [founding] member 1888 -

 Conder, William Jacomb

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 'Conder, William Jacomb', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Conder, William Jacomb Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: On some observations for longitude at Lambie Conder, W. J. On some observations for longitude at Lambie 1881 Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales 15 386-392 Journal Article: Anniversary adress Leibius, A. Anniversary adress 1891 Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 25 1-45