Royal Society of New South Wales and Related Topics

Thomas Brisbane

British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer.

Remains of observatory in Parramatta Park, Parramatta, N.S.W.

Brisbane's keen interest in science led him to accept the invitation to become the first President of the Philosophical Society of Australasia that later became the Royal Society of New South Wales.

Clarke Medal

The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences.

Robert Hamilton Mathews

Australian surveyor and self-taught anthropologist who studied the Aboriginal cultures of Australia, especially those of Victoria, New South Wales and southern Queensland.

He was a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales and a corresponding member of the Anthropological Institute of London (later the Royal Anthropological Institute).

Lawrence Hargrave

British-born Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer.

Hargrave (seated) and Swain demonstrate the manlift kites (labelled A, B, D, & E), sling seat and spring balance in the parkland behind Stanwell Park beach, November 1894

Hargrave lifted sixteen feet from the ground by a tandem of his box kites.

The Hargrave box-kite. It was by kites of this variety, flown in tandem, that the inventor, Hargrave, was lifted sixteen feet from the ground on 12 November 1894.

From 1966 to 1994 the Australian 20 dollar note featured Hargrave on the reverse.

In 1877 he was inspecting the newly developing pearling industry for Parbury Lamb and Co. He returned to Sydney, joined the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1877, and in 1878 became an assistant astronomical observer at Sydney Observatory.

Edgeworth David

Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer.

Alistair Mackay, David, and Douglas Mawson at the South Magnetic Pole on 16 January 1909

Coringah, David's home in Hornsby, Sydney, where he lived from 1920

It is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales for distinguished contributions by a young scientist under the age of thirty-five for work done mainly in Australia or its territories.

George Lewis Becke

Australian Pacific trader, short story writer and novelist.

On 7 September 1910 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

Portrait of William Branwhite Clark, c. 1875, by J Hubert Newman

William Branwhite Clarke

English geologist and clergyman, active in Australia.

Clarke was a trustee of the Australian Museum at Sydney, and an active member of the Royal Society of New South Wales of which he was vice-president 1866–1878; the Clarke Medal awarded by the Society is named in his honour.

Edgeworth David Medal

The Edgeworth David Medal is awarded annually by the Royal Society of New South Wales for distinguished contributions by a young scientist under the age of 35 years for work done predominantly in Australia or which contributed to the advancement of Australian science.

James Cook Medal

The James Cook Medal is awarded on an occasional basis by the Royal Society of New South Wales for "outstanding contributions to science and human welfare in and for the Southern Hemisphere".

St James's church in Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, is a parish church dating from the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building

Charles Anderson (mineralogist)

Australian mineralogist and palaeontologist.

He was president of the Royal Society of New South Wales (1924), the Linnean Society of New South Wales (1932), the Anthropological Society of New South Wales (1930 and 1931), and the Geographical Society of New South Wales (1941 and 1942).