Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) is an Australian natural history and conservation organisation,[1] the oldest of its kind in Australia.[2]
It was founded in May 1880 by a group of nature enthusiasts that included Thomas Pennington Lucas.[3] Johann George Luehmann, Charles French, and Dudley Best.[4]
Currently there are eight special interest groups within the FNCV, these are Botany, Fauna Survey, Fungi, Geology, Juniors, Marine Research, Microscopy and Terrestrial Invertebrates. The club also has a Day Group.
The FNCV is situated at 1 Gardenia St, Blackburn, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. A range of services is available for members including a bookshop.
Since 1940 the FNCV has awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion to the person judged to have made the most meritorious contribution to the understanding of Australian Natural History.[5] Past winners include: Alex Chisholm (1940), Helen Aston (1979), Jack Hyett (1985), and Richard Shine (2009).[6]
Publications[edit]
Since 1884 it has published the bi-monthly scientific research journal, The Victorian Naturalist. The journal contains scientific research reports, contributions, naturalist notes and book reviews. Although the journal predominantly focuses on Victorian natural history, submissions are accepted Australia-wide, on all natural history subjects.[7]
Ferdinand von Mueller published many of his first descriptions in this journal, including Agapetes meiniana,[8] Oldenlandia psychotrioides,[9] Morinda hypotephra,[9] Phyllanthus hypospodius[10] and Wendlandia basistaminea.[10]
The history of the club and their conservation work has been published by the club in Leaves from Our History: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 1880-2005 (Houghton, Sheila and Presland, Gary), and its follow-up publication Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880-2015 (Presland, Gary).[11][12][13]
Presidents[edit]
Past presidents include:
- Frank Dobson (1884)[14]
- Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas (1887–1889)[3]
- Walter Baldwin Spencer (1891–1893)
- Thomas Sergeant Hall (1901–1903)
- Francis George Allman Barnard (1905–1907)[4]
- George Arthur Keartland (1907–1909)
- Edward Edgar Pescott (1926–1928)
- Charles Barrett (1930–1931)
- Stanley Robert Mitchell (1936–1937)
- Philip Crosbie Morrison (1941–1943)
- Ina Watson (First female President) (1947–1948)
Regional groups[edit]
The FNCV has informal links to a number of regional field naturalist groups across Victoria, including:
- Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat
- Bendigo Field Naturalists Club
- Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club
- Portland Field Naturalists Club
- Geelong Field Naturalists Club
- Maryborough Field Naturalists Club
- Peninsula Field Naturalists' Club
- Latrobe Valley Field Naturalists Club
See also[edit]
- Field Naturalists Society of South Australia
- Western Australian Naturalists' Club
- Queensland Naturalists Club
- List of Australian field naturalist clubs
References[edit]
- ^ Encyclopedia of Australian Science - Corporate entry, Field Naturalist Club of Victoria
- ^ Presland, Gary (2010). "The role of naturalists in environmental conservation". Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria. 122 (2): xci–xcv – via CSIRO Publishing.
- ^ a b Sophie C. Ducker, 'Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare (1853 - 1936)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 163-164. Retrieved 2009-09-19
- ^ a b Gary Presland (2016) Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880-2015. Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- ^ Sheila Houghton (1987) The Australian Natural History Medallion Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- ^ "Australian Natural History Medallionists" (PDF). Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Victorian naturalist". State Library of Victoria. 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Ferdinand von Mueller (1887). "Descriptions of new Australian plants (continued)". The Victorian Naturalist. 3 (11): 157-160 [158]. ISSN 0042-5184. Wikidata Q124841229.
- ^ a b Ferdinand von Mueller (1889). "Descriptions of some new Australian plants". The Victorian Naturalist. 6: 54–55. ISSN 0042-5184. Wikidata Q124825709.
- ^ a b Ferdinand von Mueller (1892). "Descriptions of new Australian plants, with occasional other annotations (Continued)". The Victorian Naturalist. 8: 177–180. ISSN 0042-5184. Wikidata Q124826895.
- ^ Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. "The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Inc - Corporate Body - Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. "Book - Leaves from Our History: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 1880-2005 - Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. "Book - Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880 - 2015 - Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Barrow, Elizabeth. "Dobson, Frank Stanley (1835–1895)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
External links[edit]
- Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- The Victorian Naturalist hosted by the Biodiversity Heritage Library
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