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  1. Robinson, Ellis Alfred ('Alan' or 'Allan') (1968-1975)
  2. Beadell, Leonard (Len) (1946-1968)
  3. Hides, Jack Gordon (1935-1937)
  4. Taylor, James Lindsay (1933-1933)
  5. Leahy, Daniel Joseph (Dan) (1932-1934)
  6. Rymill, John Riddoch (1930-1933, 1934-1937)
  7. Leahy, Michael James (Mick) (1930-1934, 1930-1934)
  8. Mawson, Sir Douglas (1929-1931)
  9. Colson, Edmund Albert (1928-1936, 1928-1936, 1928-1936)
  10. Terry, Michael (1923-1970)
  11. Hooke, Sir Lionel George (1914-1916)
  12. Wilkins, Sir George Hubert (1913-1931, 1920-1939)
  13. Hoadley, Charles Archibald (1912-1913)
  14. Hurley, James Francis (Frank) (1911-1913)
  15. Laseron, Charles Francis (Carl) (1911-1913)
  16. Madigan, Cecil Thomas (1911-1913, 1939-1939)
  17. Watson, Andrew Dougald (1911-1913)
  18. Davis, John King (1911-1914)
  19. Hunter, John George (1911-1914)
  20. Moyes, Morton Henry (1911-1914, 1929-1930)
  21. Murphy, Herbert Dyce (1911-1914)
  22. Ainsworth, George Frederick (1911-1915)
  23. Mackay, Donald George (1908-1908, 1926-1937)
  24. David, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth (1907-1909)
  25. Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward (1907-1913)
  26. Canning, Alfred Wernam (1906-1910, 1929-1929)
  27. Basedow, Herbert (1903-1903, 1926-1928)
  28. Drake-Brockman, Frederick Slade (1901-1901)
  29. Finckh, Alfred Edmund (1898-1898)
  30. Bernacchi, Louis Charles (1898-1904)
  31. Hann, Frank Hugh (1898-1907)
  32. Monckton, Charles Arthur (1897-1907)
  33. Bejah, Dervish (1896-1897)
  34. Carnegie, David Wynford (1896-1897)
  35. MacGregor, Sir William (1895-1898)
  36. Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg (1894-1895, 1898-1899)
  37. Lindsay, David (1891-1891)
  38. Wells, Lawrence Allen (1891-1933, 1891-1903)
  39. Calvert, Albert Frederick (1890-1897, 1890-1897, 1890-1892, 1896-1897)
  40. Barnard, Henry Greensill (Harry) (1888-?)
  41. Bevan, Theodore Francis (1886-1887)
  42. Forbes, Henry Ogg (1885-1887)
  43. Finsch, Otto (1884-1885)
  44. Strachan, John (1884-1886)
  45. Tate, Ralph (1882-1882, 1894-1894)
  46. Barnett, Emily Caroline (1882-1883)
  47. Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1882-1911, 1882-1911)
  48. Chewings, Charles (1881-1885)
  49. Moore, Thomas Bather (1879-1919)
  50. Favenc, Ernest (1878-1879, 1879-1883, 1883-1883, 1888-1888)
  51. Palmerston, Christie (1877-1886)
  52. Chalmers, James (1877-1901)
  53. Carr-Boyd, William Henry James (1875-1882, 1883-1883)
  54. O'Hea, Timothy (1874-1874)
  55. Onslow, Arthur Alexander (1874-1874)
  56. Douglas, Alexander Douglas (1874-1882)
  57. Gosse, William Christie (1873-1873, 1873-1873)
  58. Moresby, John (1873-1873, 1873-1874)
  59. Tietkens, William Harry (1873-1875, 1873-1875, 1875-1875, 1875-1875, 1889-1889)
  60. Scott, James Reid (1873-1877)
  61. Collins, Robert Martin (1873-1878)
  62. Johnstone, Robert Arthur (1873-1881)
  63. Calder, George (1872-1872)
  64. D'Albertis, Luigi Maria (1872-1878)
  65. Hann, William (1872-1889)
  66. Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1871-1877)
  67. Forrest, Alexander (1871-1879)
  68. Forrest, Sir John (1869-1874)
  69. Windich, Tommy (1869-1874, 1870-1874)
  70. Cadell, Francis (1867-1867)
  71. Creed, John Mildred (1867-1868)
  72. Sholl, Robert John (1865-1865)
  73. Morrill, James (1864-1864)
  74. Hooley, Edward Timothy (1864-1868)
  75. Hunt, Charles Cooke (1863-1865)
  76. McIntyre, Duncan (1863-1866)
  77. Dow, John Lamont (1862-1862)
  78. Parry-Okeden, William Edward (1862-1863)
  79. Pettigrew, William (1862-1865)
  80. King, John (1861-1861)
  81. Brown, Maitland (1861-1862)
  82. McKinlay, John (1861-1862, 1861-1862, 1865-1866, 1870-1870)
  83. Hall, William Shakespeare (1861-1863)
  84. Giles, Ernest (1861-1865, 1872-1875, 1872-1875)
  85. Meston, Archibald (1860-1860, 1889-1889)
  86. Becker, Ludwig (1860-1861)
  87. Burke, Robert O'Hara (1860-1861, 1860-1861, 1860-1861)
  88. Dowling, Vincent James (1860-1861)
  89. Hodgkinson, William Oswald (1860-1861, 1875-1876)
  90. Mackay, John (1860-1861, 1863-1863)
  91. Wills, William John (1860-1861, 1860-1861, 1860-1861)
  92. Henry, Ernest (1859-1859)
  93. MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1859-1859)
  94. Morton, William Lockhart (1859-1859, 1861-1864)
  95. Sellheim, Philip Frederic (1859-1859)
  96. Dalrymple, George Augustus (1859-1861, 1864-1864, 1873-1873)
  97. Petrie, Thomas (Tom) (1859-1862)
  98. Howitt, Alfred William (1859-1863)
  99. Buchanan, Nathaniel (Nat) (1859-1877, 1878-1880, 1883-1886)
  100. Moore, William Dalgety (1858-1858)
  101. Warburton, Peter Egerton (1858-1866, 1860-1860, 1864-1864, 1866-1866, 1873-1874, 1873-1874)
  102. Freeling, Sir Arthur Henry (1857-1857)
  103. Goyder, George Woodroffe (1857-1861)
  104. MacGregor, Duncan (1857-1868)
  105. Milligan, Joseph (1856-1856)
  106. Landsborough, William (1856-1862, 1862-1862)
  107. Mueller, Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1855-1856)
  108. Austin, Robert (1854-1854)
  109. Archer, Colin (1854-1855)
  110. Archer, William (1854-1855)
  111. Archer, Charles (1853-1854, 1854-1854)
  112. Elsey, Joseph Ravenscroft (1853-1856)
  113. Smith, James (Philosopher) (1853-1871)
  114. Sinnett, Frederick (1852-1852)
  115. Allingham, Christopher (1851-1852)
  116. Allan, James Thomas (1850-1862)
  117. Carron, William (1848-1848)
  118. Franklin, Sir John (1847-1847)
  119. Stanley, Owen (1847-1848)
  120. Turner, Alfred Allatson (1847-1848, 1847-1848)
  121. Huxley, Thomas Henry (1847-1850, 1847-1847, 1847-1848)
  122. Bunce, Daniel (1839-1839, 1846-1846, 1846-1846)
  123. Mann, John Frederick (1846-1847)
  124. Gregory, Sir Augustus Charles (1846-1848, 1855-1856, 1858-1858)
  125. Hely, Hovenden (1846-1852)
  126. Lang, Gideon Scott (1845-1846, 1845-1846, 1845-1846, 1850-1851)
  127. Kennedy, Edmund Besley (1845-1848)
  128. Gilbert, John (1844-1844)
  129. Calvert, James Snowden (1844-1845)
  130. Hodgson, Christopher Pemberton (1844-1846)
  131. Roper, John (1844-1846)
  132. Leichhardt , Ludwig (1844-1848, 1845-1846)
  133. Stuart, John McDouall (1844-1862, 1844-1845, 1844-1845, 1859-1862, 1861-1862)
  134. Russell, Henry Stuart (1842-1843)
  135. Tyers, Charles James (1842-1867)
  136. Burnett, James Charles (1841-1842, 1843-1843, 1847-1847)
  137. McDougall, Robert (1841-1848)
  138. McLaurin, James (1840-1840)
  139. McMillan, Angus (1840-1841, 1864-1865)
  140. Clark, William Nairne (1840-1842)
  141. Brodribb, William Adams (1839-1840)
  142. Eyre, Edward John (1839-1841, 1840-1841)
  143. Stokes, John Lort (1839-1842, 1839-1842, 1839-1842)
  144. Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de (1839-1843, 1839-1843)
  145. Horrocks, John Ainsworth (1839-1846)
  146. Grey, Sir George (1838-1839)
  147. Ross, John (1838-1874, 1870-1871)
  148. Gellibrand, Joseph Tice (1837-1837)
  149. Yuille, William Cross (1837-1838)
  150. Morphett, Sir John (1836-1836)
  151. Richardson, John Matthew (1823-1824, 1836-1836)
  152. Bunbury, Henry William St Pierre (1836-1837)
  153. Hobson, William (1836-1837)
  154. Stapylton, Granville William Chetwynd (1836-1838)
  155. Morris, Augustus (1835-1835, 1842-1842)
  156. Anderson, Samuel (1835-1837)
  157. Lhotsky, John (1834-1834)
  158. Darke, John Charles (1833-1836, 1844-1844)
  159. Cory, Edward Gostwyck (1832-1832)
  160. Barker, Collet (1831-1831, 1831-1831)
  161. Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (1831-1832, 1835-1836, 1836-1836, 1845-1846)
  162. Biscoe, John (1830-1832)
  163. Moore, George Fletcher (1830-1839)
  164. Collie, Alexander (1829-1829)
  165. Macleay, Sir George (1829-1830, 1829-1830, 1829-1830)
  166. Wilson, Thomas Braidwood (1829-1831)
  167. Rous, Henry John (1828-1828)
  168. Sturt, Charles (1828-1830, 1828-1830, 1828-1830, 1844-1846, 1844-1846, 1844-1846, 1844-1846)
  169. Jorgenson, Jorgen (1827-1827)
  170. Dixon, Robert (1827-1829)
  171. Stirling, Sir James (1827-1830)
  172. Dawson, Robert (1826-1827)
  173. Logan, Patrick (1826-1830)
  174. Hellyer, Henry (1826-1832)
  175. Bishop, Peter (1825-1825)
  176. Lockyer, Edmund (1825-1825)
  177. Dangar, Henry (1824-1824)
  178. Wedge, John Helder (1824-1835, 1835-1835)
  179. Hardwicke, Charles Browne (1823-1823)
  180. Ovens, John (1823-1823)
  181. Hovell, William Hilton (1823-1825, 1824-1826)
  182. Bell, Archibald (1823-1840)
  183. McKay, Alexander (1823-1864)
  184. Blosseville, Jules Poret de (1822-1824)
  185. Hobbs, James (1822-1824)
  186. Bingle, John (1821-1822, 1821-1822)
  187. Bellingshausen, Faddei Faddeevich (Fabian) (1820-1821)
  188. Blackman, James (1820-1823)
  189. Howe, John (1819-1820)
  190. Roe, John Septimus (1817-1817, 1817-1817, 1817-1817, 1817-1817, 1817-1817, 1817-1818, 1819-1820, 1819-1820, 1819-1823, 1824-1824, 1830-1836, 1839-1839, 1849-1849)
  191. Jamison, Sir John (1818-1818)
  192. Singleton, Benjamin (1818-1820)
  193. Beamont, John (1817-1817)
  194. Cox, William (1817-1817)
  195. King, Phillip Parker (1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1817-1822, 1818-1819, 1837-1838)
  196. Oxley, John Joseph (1817-1823, 1823-1823)
  197. Sorell, William (1817-1824)
  198. Macarthur, James (1817-1830)
  199. Throsby, Charles (1816-1821)
  200. Cunningham, Allan (1816-1831, 1818-1818, 1819-1819)
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