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1861
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- Vice-President of the Royal Society of Victoria.
- Acclimatisation Society established with McCoy and Frederick von Mueller Vice-Presidents.
- Publication of ‘ Note on the ancient and recent natural history of Victoria
’ in Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition – the first general
account of palaeontology and zoology in Victoria.
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1864
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- President of the Royal Society of Victoria.
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1867
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- Publication of ‘ On the recent zoology and palaeontology of Victoria ’
in Annals and Magazine of Natural History (included the first detailed
list of Victorian birds).
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1869
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- Public lecture: ‘ The order of creation’.
- Began publication of a series of popular articles on Victorian and Australian natural
history in the Australasian under the pseudonym ‘Microzoon’
(1869-1871).
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