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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn updated 2025-09-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002503b.htm person Pulleine Robert Henry AACR2 7 June 1869 13 June 1935 Place of Birth Picton, New Zealand Place of Death South Australia, Australia Physician Naturalist Robert Pulleine was a consultant physician specialising in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He practised in Adelaide and was part-owner of the Walwa Hospital. Pulleine was a keen naturalist and something of a polymath, being interested in botany, anthropology, marine biology, history and entomology. He was particularly interested in spiders and made a special study of trapdoor spiders. His discoveries included three new shells, including Chlamys pulleineanus. Six other species of animals and plants were named for him including Carpobrotus pulleinei (Aizoaceae). Pulleine was an enthusiastic participant in scientific organisations in South Australia, being president of a number of them including the Royal Society of South Australia and the Anthropological Society of South Australia. He was an inaugural Member of the Board of Anthropological Research and participated in four of the Board's annual field expeditions. 1881 1881 Life event - Arrived in Australia 1885 1887 Career event - Worked at Public Library of South Australia 1888 1891 Career position - Teacher, Adelaide Collegiate School 1898 1898 Education - MB ChM, University of Adelaide and, University of Sydney 1899 1899 Career position - Physician, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1900 1905 Career event - In private practice in Gympie, Queensland 1906 1907 Career event - Studied eye, ear, nose and throat in Germany and United Kingdom 1907 Career position - In private practice in Adelaide 1909 1912 Career position - Secretary, Royal Society of South Australia 1911 1911 Career position - Chairman, Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia 1923 1924 Career position - President, Royal Society of South Australia 1925 1930 Career position - Secretary, Royal Society of South Australia 1926 Career position - Foundation Member, Board of Anthropological Research 1926 1926 Career position - Foundation President, Anthropological Society of South Australia 1927 1928 Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association 1928 1928 Career position - President, Section F (Anthropology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science Board of Anthropological Research (1926 - 1974)

Foundation Member 1926

 Royal Society of South Australia (1880 - )

President 1922 - 1924

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

President, Section F (Anthropology) 1928

 Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia (1883 - 1959)

Chairman 1911

 British Medical Association, South Australian Branch (1879 - 1962)

President 1917 - 1928

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 Pulleine, R H (1869-1935)

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 'Pulleine, Robert Henry', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Pulleine, Robert Henry Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Physiology and mental observations on the Australian Aborigines Pulleine, R.; Woollard, H.H. Physiology and mental observations on the Australian Aborigines 1930 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 54 62-75 Journal Article: The Botanical Colonisation of the Adelaide Plains Pulleine, R. H. The Botanical Colonisation of the Adelaide Plains 1935 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 35 Journal Article: Obituary: Robert Henry Pulleine Cleland, J Burton Obituary: Robert Henry Pulleine 1935 Medical Journal of Australia 2 11 362-5 Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes