The Royal Society of South Australia is a learned society whose interest is in science, particularly, but not only, of South Australia. The major aim of the society is the promotion and diffusion of s
Royal Society of South Australia building on North Terrace, behind the SA Museum.
The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Aus
Royal Society of South Australia
…Scientific Association, founded in August 1834, before the colonisation of South Australia, and whose book collection eventually formed the kernel of the State Library of South Australia. The Society had its origins in a meeting at the Stephens Place home of J. L. Young (founder of the Adelaide Educational Institution) on the evening…
The Spence Wing entrance of the State Library of South Australia
View of the Mortlock Wing, 2008
The 1861 Institute Building, home of the library before construction of the Mortlock Wing