Royal Society of South Australia

Royal Society of South Australia

The Royal Society of South Australia is a Learned Society whose interest is in Science, particularly, but not only, of South Australia.

The Society stems directly from the Adelaide Philosophical Society founded on the 10 January 1853. The title "Royal" was granted by her Majesty Queen Victoria in 1880 and the Society became known by its present designation. It was incorporated in 1883.

List of Presidents

*1853–1854: Sir Henry E. F. Young
*1855: B. H. Babbage
*1856–1861: Richard Graves MacDonnell
*1862–1868: Dominick Daly
*1869–1872: J. Ferguson
*1877: William F. D. Jervois
*1878–1879: Ralph Tate
*1880–81: Samuel J. Way
*1882: Charles Todd
*1883: H. J. Whittell
*1884: Horace Lamb
*1885: Henry C. Mais
*1886–1889: Edward Rennie
*1889: Edward Charles Stirling
*1890–1891: T. Blackburn
*1892–1894: Ralph Tate
*1895–1896: Walter Howchin
*1897–1899: W. L. Cleland
*1900–1903: Edward Rennie
*1903–1921: Sir Joseph Cooke Verco
*1921: R. S. Rogers
*1922–1924: Robert H. Pulleine
*1925: Sir Douglas Mawson
*1926: Theodore G. B. Osborn
*1927: Frederic Wood Jones
*1927–1928: Sir John Burton Cleland
*1929–1930: Leonard Keith Ward
*1931: Charles A. E. Fenner
*1932: T. Harvey Johnston
*1933: J. A. Prescott
*1934: John McConnell Black
*1935: T. D. Campbell
*1936: C. T. Madigan
*1937: H. M. Hale
*1938: J. Davidson
*1939: Henry Kenneth Fry
*1940: R. W. Segnit
*1941: Sir John Burton Cleland
*1942: J. G. Wood
*1943: W. Ternent Cooke
*1944: H. Womersley
*1945: Sir Douglas Mawson
*1946: C. S. Piper
*1947: H. C. Trumble
*1948: D. C. Swan
*1949: N. B. Tindale
*1950: A. W. Kleeman
*1951: B. C. Cotton
*1952: H. G. Andrewartha
*1953: S. B. Dickinson
*1954: J. K. Taylor
*1955: R. V. Southcott
*1956: C. G. Stephens
*1957: I. M. Thomas
*1958: L. W. Parkin
*1959–1960: T. R. N. Lothian
*1961: R. V. Southcott
*1962: N. H. Ludbrook
*1963: J. T. Hutton
*1964: A. R. Alderman
*1965: S.J. Edmonds
*1966: B. Daily
*1967: H. B. S. Womersley
*1968: K. R. Miles
*1969: F. J. Mitchell
*1970: C. B. Wells
*1971: W. G. Inglis
*1972: H. Wopfner
*1973: K. E. Lee
*1974: G. F. Gross
*1975: J. W. Holmes
*1976: C. R. Twidale
*1977: B. P. Webb
*1978: J. J. H. Szent-Ivany
*1979: J. K. Ling
*1980: S. A. Shepherd
*1981: C. W. Bonython
*1982–1983: D. W. P. Corbett
*1984: J. S. Womersley
*1985–1986: M. J. Tyler
*1987: T. D. Scott
*1988–1989: G. M. E. Mayo
*1990–1992: N. A. Locket
*1992–1994: W. D. Williams
*1994–1996: M. Davies
*1996–1998: T. C. R. White
*1998–2000: M. A. J. Williams
*2000–2002: N. F. Alley
*2002–2004: O. W. Wiebkin
*2004–2006: [http://www.clw.csiro.au/staff/FitzpatrickR/ Dr. Rob W. Fitzpatrick]
*2006: [http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=1&id=1246 Dr. Allan Pring]

References

* [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/rssa/ Royal Society of South Australia homepage]
* [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/rssa/history/ List of Presidents] at RSSA


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