Congratulations Professor Anya Reading!
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Insects include the greatest number of species of
any class of animals. They have been divided into thirty Orders.
However only four Orders of insects consist of species whose
larval forms are always aquatic, while another nine Orders
contain some species with either aquatic larvae or which are
aquatic throughout larval and adult stages.
Insects are characteried by a hard, segmented,
exoskeleton and by a three segmented thorax, each bearing a
pair of legs and usually with two pairs of wings attached to
the second and third thoracic segments. In the Diptera and
some mayflies (Ephemeroptera) the wings are reduced to a single
pair, while in primitive insects such as springtails and silver
fish, wings are absent. They have also been lost from some
species of more advanced orders of insects.
Published Papers
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.
