Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia

The Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia was established in 1895 as the Anthropological Society of Australasia by the Australian physician Alan Carroll.^[1] Viscount Hampden, Governor-General of New South Wales was the first patron.^[2] Approval was given for the prefix 'Royal' to be added by Queen Victoria in 1900.^[3]

The society published 14 volumes of its journal Science of Man between February 1898 and November 1913.^[4][5] One of the activities of the society was to record and publish Aboriginal place names in New South Wales.^[6]

According to a 2003 article by academic Jennifer M. T. Carter published by the National Library of Australia when writing about geologist Georgina King, the society was "nowadays seen as forming part of the ‘lunatic fringe’."^[7]