Royal Society of Victoria
The Royal Society of Victoria (RSV ) is the oldest learned society in the Australian state of Victoria.
The Company was in 1859 by a merger of the Philosophical Society of Victoria ( inaugural president was Captain Andrew Clarke ) and the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science ( inaugural president was Sir Redmond Barry ), both of which were founded in 1854. The first president of R.S.V. was Ferdinand von Mueller, who was a botanist in the service of the government at the time.
The company took an important role in Melbourne and Victoria. So she founded the Melbourne Museum, established a National Park, organized the expedition of Burke and Wills in 1860, the first Australian Antarctic research committee convened in 1885 and founded in 1978, the Victorian Institute of Marine Sciences (since 1996 the Marine and Freshwater Resources Institute ). It is still active with monthly meetings held in its historic headquarters on Victoria Street in Melbourne.