Royal Society of New South Wales - Notable Members

Notable Members

  • Edward Wollstonecraft, a founding member of the original Philosophical Society of Australasia
  • William Branwhite Clarke, geologist and long-time vice-president
  • Philip Sydney Jones, surgeon. A member for 51 years
  • James Charles Cox, conchologist
  • William Scott (astronomer and clergyman)
  • Robert Hamilton Mathews, (anthropologist and surveyor)
  • Charles Anderson (mineralogist), mineralogist, paelontologist and president in 1924

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