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unusual facts about Royal Society of Tasmania


James Backhouse Walker

"The French in Van Diemen's Land" (Hobart, 1889); "The Settlement of Tasmania, comprising Papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania" (Hobart, 1890); "The Discovery and Occupation of Port Dalrymple" (Hobart, 1890).


Walk to the West

was a book published to celebrate both the sesquicentenary (150 years) of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1993, and the event from which the book is made - the Walk to the West Coast of Tasmania by James Backhouse Walker, Arthur Leslie Giblin, Charles Percy Sprent, William Piguenit, Robert Mackenzie Johnston, William Vincent Legge, George Samuel Perrin, and Henry Vincent Bayly in 1887 from Hobart to the West Coast of Tasmania.


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Leonie McNair

McNair is a supporter of the arts with membership in a number of organisations including the Royal Society of Tasmania, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, the National Trust of Tasmania and Theatre North.