May 12, 2020
Via Zoom, Dr Gary Presland
How Nature Shaped The City Of Melbourne

Dr Gary Presland is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, is an authority on Aboriginal and natural history in Melbourne, has a research interest in police history in Victoria, is widely published and is a prize-winning author and editor.

He is a long-standing member of the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria, as well as  a number of local historical societies, including Footscray, Victoria Police, and Box Hill.

Gary is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, an Honorary Fellow of The University of Melbourne (School of Geography) and an Honorary Associate of Museum Victoria, and closely involved with the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.