The Royal Society of Victoria 1934-1984
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Draft version of text for the Royal Society of Victoria's entry in the Victorian Year Book 1984, written around 1980 by Richard Garran, who was president of the Society 1961-62. The edited version appeared in the Victorian Year Book 1984, no. 98, Australian Bureau of Statistics, pp. 56-57.
The year 1934 was the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science and the Philosophical Society of Victoria. These societies merged in 1855 to form the Philosophical Institute of Victoria which in 1859, by Royal Assent, took the name 'Royal Society of Victoria'. The Royal Society's first 105 years, 1854 to 1959, were chronicled by R.T.M. Pescott in the Centenary Volume, No. 73, of the Society's Proceedings, published in 1961.
The Society's object, unchanged over the years, is 'The Advancement of Science' which it has pursued, without interruption, by holding scientific meetings, by the publication in its Proceedings of records of scientific research, and by the maintenance of its library, consisting mainly of scientific periodicals acquired from world-wide exchanges of its Proceedings, from 1855 to the present, with the publications of other scientific institutions, covering mainly the earth sciences and biological sciences.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Philosophical Institute of Victoria; Philosophical Society of Victoria; Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science
People in Bright Sparcs - Garran, Richard Randolph
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