On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
A quick study of the awards would have to include Clive Lord’s contributions to the descriptions of new species found in Tasmania culminating in an invaluable handbook called The Vertebrate Species of Tasmania and thirty papers published in the Society’s peer-reviewed journal. Along with L Rodway’s Botany and R M Johnston’s Geology of Tasmania the handbook is highly regarded. Clive Lord described the Nototherium Mitchelli, an extinct genus of marsupial, among other species including whales and seals.
Clive Lord was closely interested in the problems of early Tasmanian history and the records of the Tasmanian Aborigines. This is why the award oscillates between the disciplines of science and history.
Clive Lord was awarded the Royal Society Medal in 1930 and this newspaper report of its presentation details his achievements.
Clive Errol Lord (1889-1933) was born in Hobart, trained as an architect and developed an interest in natural history. He was the State’s leading ornithologist and from 1923-33 he was the Director of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Lord served as Secretary of the RST from 1918-33. Lord wrote numerous papers on the Tasmanian natural environment and its history.
The first award of the Clive Lord Medal was in 1938.
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2022 Emeritus Prof Stefan Petrow
2019 Prof Jamie Kirkpatrick
2016 H Reynolds
2013 Prof Bradley Potts
2010 Don Kay
2007 A J Crawford
2004 T D Sprod
2001 Prof R Menary
1996 Dr Alison Alexander
1993 Mr D R Gregg
1989 Dr Lloyd Robson
1986 Mr RGH Green
1983 Mr N J Brian Plomley
1977 Dr E R Guiler
1973 Dr W Bryden
1966 Dr W M Curtis
1960 Em Prof Vernon Victor Hickman
1958 Mr P G Law
1951 Prof J Burke
1947 Dr H Thompson
1939 Prof B Cleland
1938 Prof L F Giblin
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.