Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Encyclopedia
The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) is an Australia
n natural history
and conservation
organisation.
It was founded in May 1880 by a group of nature enthusiasts that included Thomas Pennington Lucas
. Charles French and Dudley Best. It is the oldest conservation group in Victoria. Since 1884 it has published a journal, The Victorian Naturalist, which is issued six times a year.
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.
Past presidents include:
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
and conservation
Conservation movement
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal, fungus and plant species as well as their habitat for the future....
organisation.
It was founded in May 1880 by a group of nature enthusiasts that included Thomas Pennington Lucas
Thomas Pennington Lucas
Thomas Pennington Lucas was a Scottish-born Australian medical practitioner, naturalist, author, philosopher and utopianist.- Early life :...
. Charles French and Dudley Best. It is the oldest conservation group in Victoria. Since 1884 it has published a journal, The Victorian Naturalist, which is issued six times a year.
Since 1940 the FNCV has awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion
Australian Natural History Medallion
The Australian Natural History Medallion is awarded each year by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria to the person judged to have made the most meritorious contribution to the understanding of Australian Natural History...
to the person judged to have made the most meritorious contribution to the understanding of Australian Natural History.
Past presidents include:
- Arthur Henry Shakespeare LucasArthur Henry Shakespeare LucasArthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas was an English-born Australian schoolmaster and scientist.-Early life:Lucas born was born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, the third son of the Rev. Samuel Lucas, a Wesleyan minister, and his wife Elizabeth, née Broadhead...
(1887-1889) - Walter Baldwin SpencerWalter Baldwin SpencerSir Walter Baldwin Spencer KCMG was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist.Baldwin was born in Stretford, Lancashire. His father, Reuben Spencer, who had come from Derbyshire in his youth, obtained a position with Rylands and Sons, cotton manufacturers, and rose to be chairman of its...
(1891–1893) - Francis George Allman Barnard (1905-1907)
- Thomas Sergeant HallThomas Sergeant HallThomas Sergeant Hall was an Australian geologist and biologist, recipient of The Murchison Fund in 1901.-Early life:...
(1901–1903) - George Arthur KeartlandGeorge Arthur KeartlandGeorge Arthur Keartland was an Australian typographer and ornithologist notable for his collecting work on the Horn and Calvert scientific exploring expeditions....
(1907–1909) - Edward Edgar PescottEdward Edgar PescottEdward Edgar Pescott was an Australian naturalist. He was Principal Governor of the Burnley School of Horticulture from 1909 to 1916, and Government Pomologist for the Victorian Department of Agriculture from 1917 to 1937...
(1926–1928) - Charles BarrettCharles Leslie BarrettCharles Leslie Barrett was an Australian naturalist, journalist, author and ornithologist.Born in Hawthorn, Victoria, he was a foundation member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 1901 and editor of its journal the Emu, 1910-1916...
(1930-1931) - P Crosbie Morrison (1941-1943)
- Ina Watson (First female President) (1947-1948)
Regional Groups
The FNCV has informal links to a number of regional field naturalist groups across Victoria, including:- Ballarat Field Naturalists Club
- Bendigo Field Naturalists Club
- Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club
- Portland Field Naturalists Club
- Geelong Field Naturalists ClubGeelong Field Naturalists ClubThe Geelong Field Naturalists Club is an Australian regional amateur scientific natural history and conservation society which was founded in 1961 by Trevor Pescott...
- Maryborough Field Naturalists Club