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About the event:
I very much enjoyed attending the launch of Dr Ann Moyal’s new book, “The Web of Science. The Scientific Correspondence of the Rev. W.B. Clark, Austraia’s Pioneer Geologist which was hosted by the Independent Scholars Association (http://www.independentscholars.asn.au) at the Friends Room of the National Library of Australia (http://www.nla.gov.au) on Monday, 10 May 2004 – launched by Michael Organ, MHR, Australia’s first Greens member of the Federal Parliament. We enjoyed drinks and nibbles beforehand and I met Helen Kon, Assistant Director-General of Public Programs who told me about PANDORA (http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html.)... What a great networking occasion.
Many of you will know Ann’s work through reading among other things, The Platypus (see WISENET J59). The publishers, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, are offering this beautiful two volume journal to WISENET members at $175 (normal retail price $200) if any of you would like to purchase or give as a gift. Please contact Nick Walker at Australian Scholarly Publishing, PO Box 200, Kew Victoria 3101, telephone (03) 9654 0250 or email: aspic@ozemail.com.au if you are interested.
About the book:
The Anglican Clergyman, the Rev. W.B. Clarke, was a polymath in colonial Australia. Pioneer geologist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific columnist for the Sydney press, he was a vital figure in the discovery of gold, coal and other metals, a founding geological investigator on the age of coal, a found of the Royal Society of New South Wales and, until his death in 1878, New South Wales’s leading scientific savant. Ann has drawn together and edited two volumes of his scientific correspondence from the Clarke Papers in the Mitchell Library and from repositories around the world opening a window on science in nineteenth century Australia and its cultural and intellectual development.
Supported by the Geological Society of Australia (http://www.gsa.org.au).
Anna Robinson, National Convenor, WISENET 2004.
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