The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) is an Australian 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:
- Frank Dobson (1884)
- Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas (1887–1889)
- Walter Baldwin Spencer (1891–1893)
- Thomas Sergeant Hall (1901–1903)
- Francis George Allman Barnard (1905–1907)
- George Arthur Keartland (1907–1909)
- Edward Edgar Pescott (1926–1928)
- Charles Barrett (1930–1931)
- Philip Crosbie Morrison (1941–1943)
- Ina Watson (First female President) (1947–1948)
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