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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Event created 2024-03-08 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2026-02-25 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007361b.htm event Conference convened by the Prime Minister, W.M Hughes, to consider the question of the establishment of a National Laboratory, 5 January 1916 AACR2 5 January 1916 5 January 1916 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Conference This landmark event, held in Melbourne in the Cabinet room of the new Commonwealth Offices from 3pm, lead directly to the formation of the Advisory Council of Science and Industry that started work just over two months later on 16 March 1916. There are links to most of the attendees below. Of the 36 people invited 29 were able to attend.

From Currie and Graham page 1960:

APPENDIX 2

Conference convened by the Prime Minister to consider the question of the establishment of a National Laboratory, 5 January 1916

PRESENT
The Prime Minister:
Hon. W. M. Hughes

State Ministers for Agriculture:
Hon. F. Hagelthorn, Victoria.
Hon. C. Goode, South Australia.
Hon. W. Lennon, Queensland.

Representatives of State Universities:
Sydney, Professor Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart;
Adelaide, Professors Sir Douglas Mawson and Kerr Grant;
Melbourne, Professors Masson and Baldwin Spencer;
Brisbane, Professor Gibson and Dr Richards;
Hobart, Dr Glasson.

Interstate Commissioners:
Mr A. B. Piddington, Hon. G. Swinburne

President, Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia:
Mr W. T. Appleton.

President, Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia:
Mr W.W. Forwood.

Messrs W. C. T. Goodman (South Australian Tramways), E. W. Knox (Colonial Sugar Refining Co.), A. De Bavay, W. Russell Grimwade, W.S. Robinson, G. D. Delprat, C. F. Courtney, J. Winter-Irving, J. M. Higgins, W. P. Wilkinson (Federal Analyst), Griffith Taylor, G. H. Knibbs (Commonwealth Statistician), Dr S. S. Cameron (Director of Agriculture, Victoria).

The Ministers for Agriculture of New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania, representatives of the University of Western Australia and Messrs B. T. McKay, of Queensland, and Jas. Alex. Smith, of Melbourne, were invited but unable to be present.

 Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880 - 1963) Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Commonwealth of Australia (1916 - 1920) Stuart, Thomas Peter Anderson (1856 - 1920) Mawson, Douglas (1882 - 1958) Grant, Kerr (1878 - 1967) Masson, David Orme (1858 - 1937) Spencer, Walter Baldwin (1860 - 1929) Glasson, Joseph Leslie (1889 - 1923) Gibson, Alexander James (1876 - 1960) Conference convened by the Prime Minister, S.M. Bruce, to consider the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, 30 May and 1 June 1925 Swinburne, George (1861 - 1928) Cameron, Samuel Sherwen (1866 - 1933) Knibbs, George Handley (1858 - 1929) Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856 - 1937) Goodman, William George Toop (1872 - 1961) Knox, Edward William (1847 - 1933) de Bavay, Auguste Joseph François (1856 - 1944) Grimwade, Wilfrid Russell (1879 - 1955) Robinson, William Sydney (1876 - 1963) Higgins, John Michael (1862 - 1937) Wilkinson, William Percy (1868 - 1947) Richards, Henry Caselli (1884 - 1947) 'Conference convened by the Prime Minister, W.M Hughes, to consider the question of the establishment of a National Laboratory, 5 January 1916', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Conference convened by the Prime Minister, W.M Hughes, to consider the question of the establishment of a National Laboratory, 5 January 1916 Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Currie, George; Graham, John The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Melbourne CSIRO 1966