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Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)

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Pathologist, Epidemiologist and Ornithologist

Born: 22 June 1878 Norwood, South Australia, Australia. Died: 11 August 1971 Walkerville, Australia.

(Sir) John Burton Cleland was the first Marks Professor of Pathology at the University of Adelaide (1920 to 1948). With T.D. Campbell and Frederick Wood Jones he formed the Board of Anthropological Research at the University which he chaired for nearly 30 years. Earlier he was Government Pathologist for the Western Australian Department of Public Health (1905-9) and Microbiologist at the Government Bureau of Microbiology in Sydney (1909-20). He was also a passionate naturalist and ornithologist who wrote a two volume book on the larger fungi of South Australia (1934-35) and presented a collection of nearly 30,000 plants, which included nearly 60 new species, to the South Australian Herbarium. Cleland also donated nearly 1,000 bird-skins to Gregory Mathews for his book, "The Birds of Australia" (1910-27), a number of which became type specimens. About 40 species or subspecies of fungi, vascular plants and animals were named after him, as well as a new genus Clelandia in both the plant and animal worlds. John Cleland is also commemorated by the Cleland Conservation Park in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia (opened 1967) and the Cleland Kindergarten in Beaumont, South Australia. He was involved in numerous other activities and was a key instigator of the foundation of the Flora and Fauna Handbooks Committee of South Australia, a one-time president (and founding member) of the Medical Sciences Club of South Australia and President of the Western Australian Natural History Society.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1900 Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at the University of Adelaide (?)
1900 House Surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales
1901 - 1902 Second Resident Pathologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
1902 Doctor of Medicine (MD) completed at the University of Sydney (?)
1903 Study trip to the London School of Tropical Medicine and to Glasgow
1904 Cancer Research Scholar at the London Hospital
1905 - 1909 Western Australian Government Bacteriologist and Pathologist
1909 - 1920 Microbiologist then Senior Microbiologist at the Bureau of Microbiology in Sydney
1917 President of the Royal Society of New South Wales
1920 - 1938 Honorary Pathologist then Honorary Consultant at the Adelaide Hospital
1920 - 1948 Inaugural Marks Professor of Pathology (including bacteriology), then Professor Emeritus at the University of Adelaide
1921 - 1948 Founder and Editor of the Royal Adelaide Hospital's Medical and Scientific Archives
1922 - 1968 Chairman of the Flora and Fauna Handbooks Committee of South Australia
1927 - 1928 President of the Royal Society of South Australia
1933 Sir Joseph Verco Medal received from the Royal Society of South Australia
1935 - 1936 President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
1936 - 1955 Chairman of the Belair National Park in South Australia
1938 - 1939 President of the South Australian Ornithological Association
1939 Clive Lord Memorial Medal received from the Royal Society of Tasmania
1940 - 1941 President of the Royal Society of South Australia
1949 - Honorary Life Member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
1949 - Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia (FRS Hon)
1949 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1952 Australian Natural History Medallion received from the Field Naturalists' Club
1961 - Life member of the South Australian Ornithological Association
1964 Knight Bachelor (Kt cr)
1964 John Lewis Gold Medal received from the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.

Children

Paton, Joan (1916? - 2000)

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 29 January 2007

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