A Trip to the Dominions
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A Trip to the Dominions

The Scientific Event that Changed Australia

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A Trip to the Dominions

The Scientific Event that Changed Australia

About this book

On the eve of the Great War, in 1914 the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to?travel to Australia for their annual conference. Over 150 scientists were fully funded by the Australian Commonwealth government and they travelled on three ships especially commanded for this purpose.

Across five major cities, public talks, demonstrations and excursions familiarised the visiting scientists with Australian natural and hard sciences, geology, botany as well as anthropology. In terms of anthropology,?the congress presented a unique opportunity to showcase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. The Association, deeply impressed by this, urged the Federal Government to support a chair in anthropology to be based at an Australian university.

Other outcomes included the Association's recommendations to establish a Commonwealth Scientific Institute (later CSIRO) and to develop a national telescope at Mt Stromlo. Although these were delayed by the outbreak of WWI, it is clear that this Trip to the Dominions was no mere singular event, but rather left a legacy we are still beneficiaries of today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. About this book
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1: A ‘young and vigorous outpost of Empire’: The 1914 British Association for the Advancement of Science Congress in Australia
  7. Chapter 2: ‘All memory had perished’: Salvage ethnography’s archaeological blind spot illustrated by Alfred and Kathleen Haddon’s visit to Torres Strait in 1914
  8. Chapter 3: A diary in the loose sense of the term: Henry Balfour and the 1914 Australian meeting
  9. Chapter 4: Taming the Territory: Walter Baldwin Spencer and Elsie Masson
  10. Chapter 5: The Notes and Queries, gestures toward a settler history
  11. About the authors
  12. Index