P006967 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2022-05-20 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-05-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006967b.htm corporateBody Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of Queensland AACR2 1886 1894 Start Place Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Society or Membership Organisation Natural history The Field Naturalists' Section of Royal Society of Queensland was founded in 1886 largely at the instigation of Henry Tryon. Intended as a general natural history society, it's activities leaned towards the botanical. Enthusiasm for the Section waned, its last excursion (to Eumundi) being held at Easter 1894. Bailey, Frederick Manson (1827 - 1915)

Foundation Chairman 1886 - 1894

 Illidge, Rowland (1850 - 1929)

Foundation member 1886

 Shirley, John Francis (1849 - 1922)

Foundation member 1886

 Watkins, George (1848 - 1916)

Foundation Member 1886

 Turner, Alfred Jefferis (1861 - 1947)

Foundation Member 1886

 Bancroft, Joseph (1836 - 1894)

Foundation member 1886

 Royal Society of Queensland (1884 - ) 'Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of Queensland', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of Queensland Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: A history of the Queensland Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Queensland from 1859 to 1911 Marks, Elizabeth N. A history of the Queensland Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Queensland from 1859 to 1911 1960 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 71 17-42 Journal Article: Origin and early years of the Queensland Naturalists' Club Holland, C. W. Origin and early years of the Queensland Naturalists' Club 1946 Queensland naturalist 13 26-34