scholarly journals Introduction: Looking again at William Blandowski

2009 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Allen
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Early Years ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Murray River

THE 150th Anniversary of William Blandowski’s 1856-57 expedition to the Murray River provided the opportunity for the Royal Society of Victoria to hold a symposium to reassess the significance of Blandowski’s life and career before, during and after his time in Australia. Despite Blandowski’s significant role in the early years of the Royal Society, few of its members had heard of Blandowski and even fewer knew of his work as an artist and naturalist. This was part of the impetus behind the symposium. Another was to make information on the Murray River expedition available to residents of northwest Victoria and southwest New South Wales, the area where most of its collecting took place.

The Influence of Climate and Topography in the Formation and Distribution of Products of Weathering

1930 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. G. Woolnough
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geology ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
New South ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales

For many years the writer has been specially interested in the variations apparent in the processes of weathering of rocks under different climatic and physiographic conditions, and has made several attempts to explain such features. Of these published attempts the most detailed took the form of a Presidential Address to the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1927. Certain portions of the argument were repeated in Economic Geology, but the regional aspects of the question were omitted.

scholarly journals Arthur Phillip: Commodore of the Fleet

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Gary L Sturgess
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Early Years ◽  
South Wales

The transportation of convicts to New South Wales in the early years of settlement was a great deal more challenging than has generally been recognised. Arthur Phillip's success in bringing a convoy of eleven ships, including six transports carrying more than 750 convicts, on a voyage of eight months duration across the globe means we need to rethink his contribution to fitting out and managing Australia's First Fleet.

scholarly journals Report to the committee of the Royal Society appointed to investigate the structure of a coral reef by boring

1897 ◽  
Vol 60 (359-367) ◽  
pp. 502-512
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
True Structure

In presenting, as desired by the Committee, Professor Sollas’s report on the attempts to ascertain, by boring, the structure of the atoll of Funafuti and on other investigations simultaneously undertaken, I avail myself of the opportunity of expressing the gratitude which is felt by its members to our friends in New South Wales, who have given such real and substantial help, especially by the loan of machinery and skilled workmen, in putting the project into execution; and among them chiefly to Professor Anderson Stuart (who has been practically another secretary in Australia), Professor Edgeworth David, Mr. W. H. J. Slee (Chief Inspector of Mines), and Sir Saul Samuel (the Agent-General of the Colony in England). I shall venture also to acknowledge gratefully the services of Captain Field and the officers of H.M.S. "Penguin," and the unstinted labour which has been given by Mr. W. W. Watts, F. G. S., our Secretary in London, in carrying out our plans. In conclusion, may I express, speaking for myself, my earnest hope that another attempt will be made to determine the true structure of an atoll.

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