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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-02-08 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-08-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003154b.htm person Hull Arthur Francis Basset AACR2 10 October 1862 22 September 1945 Place of Birth Hobart Town, Tasmania, Australia Public servant Naturalist Ornithologist Basset Hull was clerk in charge of legal matters, Department of Mines 1903-1921 and honorary ornithologist, Australian Museum 1917-1945. His particular interest was conchology.

Born Hobart Town, 10 October 1862. Died Manly, Sydney, 22 September 1945. MBE 1936. Educated the High School, Hobart. Clerk, Supreme Court registry 1883-89; clerk, General Post Office, Sydney 1892-1900; secretary to the labour commissioners, Department of Public Works 1900-02; clerk in charge of legal matters, Department of Mines 1903-21; honorary ornithologist, Australian Museum 1917-45. President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1917-19, 1928-29, 1938-39, member of the Council for 35 years, Fellow and Honorary Member; member, Taronga Zoological Park Trust 1926-42; president, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1919-20; president, Linnean Society of New South Wales 1923-24; Corresponding Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union; Corresponding Member, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. His two special interests were philately, in which he published books and received many honours, and conchology, particularly loricates (Chitons). Published A Monograph of Australian Loricates with Tom Iredale (1927) and gave a duplicate set of his specimens to the Australian Museum. Commemorated by the genus Bassethullia and several species. His portrait, painted in 1941, is held by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

1916 1919 Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1917 1945 Career position - Honorary Ornithologist, Australian Museum 1919 1920 Career position - President. Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1922 1922 Career event - Elected Associate Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council 1923 1924 Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales 1928 1929 Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1928 1939 Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1931 1945 Award - Fellow, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (1879 - )

President 1916 - 1919, 1928 - 1929 and 1938 - 1939; Fellow 1931 - 1945

 Australian Museum (1827 - )

Honorary Ornithologist 1917 - 1945

 Linnean Society of New South Wales (1874 - )

President 1923 - 1924

 Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1910 - 1997)

President 1919 - 1920

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

Associate Member (Zoology) 1922 -

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 'Hull, Arthur Francis Basset', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hull, Arthur Francis Basset Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Hull, Arthur Francis Basset (1862-1945), public servant and naturalist Kloot, Tess Hull, Arthur Francis Basset (1862-1945), public servant and naturalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 401-402 Journal Article: Monograph of the Australian Loricates (Phylum Mollusca - Order Loricata), IX: appendix C, biography and bibliography Iredale, Tom; and Hull, A. F. Bassett Monograph of the Australian Loricates (Phylum Mollusca - Order Loricata), IX: appendix C, biography and bibliography 1927 Australian zoologist 4 339-59 Journal Article: The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. The Present Position and Future Aims Hull, A. F. Basset The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. The Present Position and Future Aims 1914 Australian Zoologist 1 65-67 Book: The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 Prince, J. H. The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 Sydney Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales 1979 Book: The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 Prince, J. H. The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 Sydney Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales 1979 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001