Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

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.^[1] Charles French and Dudley Best. ^[2] 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.^[3]

Past presidents include:

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas (1887-1889)^[1]
Walter Baldwin Spencer (1891–1893)
Francis George Allman Barnard (1905-1907)^[4]
Thomas Sergeant Hall (1901–1903)
George Arthur Keartland (1907–1909)
Edward Edgar Pescott (1926–1928)
Charles Barrett (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 Club
Maryborough Field Naturalists Club

References

^ ^a ^b Sophie C. Ducker, 'Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare (1853 - 1936)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 163-164. Retrieved 2009-09-19
^ Sheila Houghton & Gary Presland (2005) Leaves from our history: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880-2005. Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
^ Sheila Houghton (1987) The Australian Natural History Medallion Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
^ Sheila Houghton & Gary Presland (2005) Leaves from our history: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880-2005. Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

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