The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) is an Australian natural history and

conservation Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws. Conservation may also refer to: Environment and natural resources * Nature conservation, the protection and managem ...

organisation. It was founded in May 1880 by a group of nature enthusiasts that included Thomas Pennington Lucas. Sophie C. Ducker,
Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare (1853 - 1936)
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Australian Dictionary of Biography The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's ...

'', Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 163-164. Retrieved 2009-09-19 Charles French and Dudley Best.Gary Presland (2016) ''Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880-2015.'' Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria It is the oldest conservation group in ustralia Since 1884 it has published a journal, ''

The Victorian Naturalist ''The Victorian Naturalist'' is a bimonthly scientific journal covering natural history, especially of Australia. It is published by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and is received as part of the membership subscription of that club. From ...

'', which is issued six times a year. Currently there are eight special interest groups (SIGs) within the FNCV, these are Botany, Fauna Survey, Fungi, Geology, Juniors, Marine Research, Microscopy and Terrestrial Invertebrates. The club also has a Day Group. The FNCV is situated at 1 Gardenia St, Blackburn, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. A range of services are available for members including a bookshop. Since 1940 the FNCV has awarded the

Australian Natural History Medallion The Australian Natural History Medallion is awarded each year by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) to the person judged to have made the most meritorious contribution to the understanding of Australian Natural History. The idea origina ...

to the person judged to have made the most meritorious contribution to the understanding of Australian Natural History.

Presidents

Past presidents include: *

Frank Dobson Frank Gordon Dobson (15 March 1940 – 11 November 2019) was a British Labour Party politician. As Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015, he served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 ...

(1884) * Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas (1887–1889) *

Walter Baldwin Spencer Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (23 June 1860 – 14 July 1929), commonly referred to as Baldwin Spencer, was a British-Australian evolutionary biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his fieldwork with Aboriginal peoples in ...

(1891–1893) * Thomas Sergeant Hall (1901–1903) * Francis George Allman Barnard (1905–1907) * George Arthur Keartland (1907–1909) *

Edward Edgar Pescott Edward Edgar Pescott (11 December 1872 – 31 July 1954) was an Australian naturalist. He was Principal Governor of the Burnley School of Horticulture from 1909 to 1916, and Government Pomologist for the Victorian Department of Agriculture ...

(1926–1928) * Charles Barrett (1930–1931) *

Stanley Robert Mitchell Stanley Robert Mitchell (12 February 1881 – 22 March 1963) was an Australian commercial metallurgist as well as an amateur mineralogist and ethnologist. Early years Mitchell was born in St Kilda, Victoria, the oldest of eight siblings. His ...

(1936–1937) *

Philip Crosbie Morrison Philip Crosbie Morrison (19 December 1900 – 1 March 1958) was an Australian naturalist, educator, journalist, broadcaster and conservationist. Early years Morrison was born in Hawthorn, Victoria. He attended Auburn State School and Univers ...

(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 Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. Within months of Vic ...

Bendigo Field Naturalists Club Bendigo ( ) is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2019, Bendigo had an urban population of 100,991, makin ...

Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club Castlemaine may mean: * Castlemaine, Victoria, a town in Victoria, Australia ** Castlemaine Football Club, an Australian rules football club ** Castlemaine railway station * Castlemaine, County Kerry, a town in Ireland * Castlemaine Brewery, Weste ...

Portland Field Naturalists Club Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

Geelong Field Naturalists Club The Geelong Field Naturalists Club (GFNC) is an Australian regional amateur scientific natural history and Habitat conservation, conservation society which was founded in 1961 by Trevor Pescott. It is based in Geelong, Victoria, with the aims of ...

Maryborough Field Naturalists Club Maryborough may refer to: * Maryborough, Queensland, Australia ** Maryborough Base Hospital * Maryborough, Victoria, Australia * The former name of Portlaoise, Republic of Ireland, from 1557 to 1929 * City of Maryborough (disambiguation) * El ...

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Presidents

Regional groups

See also

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