​Wednesday
2nd February

Rev. W. B. Clarke – 19th Century Polymath and his Scientific Correspondence

Dr Ann Moyal AM

Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre.

Dr Moyal will speak on the topic of her book that was recently launched at the State Library: The Scientific Correspondence of the Rev. W B Clarke, Australia’s Pioneer Geologist. As most members will also be aware, The Rev. W.B. Clarke was an early founding member of the Society and served as inaugural and an influential Vice President for seven years.

​Wednesday
23rd February

​Four Societies Meeting: Geothermal Energy in Australia

Dr Doone Wyborn

The Four Societies Meeting is a meeting of the Nuclear Engineering Panel of Engineers Australia, Australian Institute of Energy, Australian Nuclear Association and
the Royal Society of NSW.

Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Harricks Auditorium, Ground Floor, Eagle House, 118 Alfred Street, Milsons Point.

This year the Four Societies Meeting will be separate from our February 1132nd General Meeting above and will be hosted by Engineers Australia. Dr Doone Wyborn, Executive Director, Geodynamics has agreed to be the Guest Speaker on the topic of Geothermal Energy in Australia. Geodynamics have drilled one well in the Cooper Basin of South Australia to a depth of 4.5 km, intersecting rock in excess of 240C, and have a second well underway. They expect to start production in 2006.

​Wednesday
11th March

​The Royal Society of New South Wales Annual Dinner

Time: 7.00 for 7.30 pm
Venue: Forum Restaurant, Darlington Centre, Sydney University (City Road)

The Society’s Patron, His Excellency, Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC (ret’d), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, presented the 2004 Awards.

​Wednesday
6th April

A Hundred Years after Einstein’s Extraordinary Year

The Annual General Meeting and the 1133rd Ordinary General Meeting

The President, Ms Karina Kelly, will deliver the Presidential Address

Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road

​Wednesday
4th May

Biocosmology: a New Science

Dr Charley Lineweaver, Senior Fellow Planetary Science Institute, Australian National University

Time: 7.00 pm (bar open from 6.00 pm)
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road

​Wednesday
1st June

Bactrian Camels in Antiquity

Prof. Dan Potts,
Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology, University of Sydney

Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road

​Wednesday
6th July

Why did the Vertebrate Brain Become Lateralised?

Professor Lesley Rogers, Professor of Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, University of New England

Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road

​Wednesday
3rd August

Tails of Dingoes: their Past and their Future

Dr Alan Wilton,
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of NSW

Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road

​Wednesday
7th September

​Clarke Memorial Lecture and 1138th Ordinary General Meeting

The Ediacara and its Fauna

Professor Pat Vickers-Rich, School of Geosciences, Monash University

Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road

​Wednesday
5th October

TB: A New Vaccine and Some Observations on the Influence of Genetics

Professor Warwick Britton, Head, Mycobacterial Research Group, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Sydney

Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road

​Wednesday
2nd November

The Role of DNA studies in the Story of Human Evolution

Dr Sheila van Holst Pellekaan,
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of NSW

Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road

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