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Authorised form of name	Masson; Sir; David Orme (1858 - 1937)
Dates	1858 - 1937
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Hampstead, London, England
Date of birth	13 January 1858
Place of death	Melbourne, Australia
Date of death	10/08/1937
Activity	Education: MA (1877); BSc (1880); DSc (1884, Edinburgh) Career: Research Fellow, Edinburgh University (1881); Professor of Chemistry, Melbourne University, Australia (1886); founded the Melbourne University Chemical Society; founded the Society of Chemical Industry, Victoria; foundation President, Australian Chemical Institute (1917-1920); co-founded (1921) and later President (1922-1923), Australian National Research Council; retired as Emeritus Professor (1923) Honours: CBE 1918; KBE 1923 Memberships: Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (President 1911-1913)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	11/06/1903
Relationships	Son of David Masson, Professor of English Literature; married Mary Struthers; father of Sir James Irvine Orme Masson (FRS 1939); uncle of John Masson Gulland (FRS 1945);
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; AE Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 455-464, plate, by A C D Rivett References: R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
Code	NA2901

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
RR/17/70	Referee's report by Frederick Thomas Trouton, on a paper 'On the hygroscopic action of cotton' by David Orme Masson and E S Richards	[August 1906]
NLB/17/782	Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society	19 December 1898
NLB/29/286	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor [David] Orme Masson, Fellow of the Royal Society	3 September 1904
MC/25/162	Letter from [David] Orme Masson, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, N. W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]	14 November 1910
RR/14/65	Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Ionic velocities' by David Orme Masson	16 January 1899
NLB/57/463	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WB [Sir William Blaxland] Benham, FRS	11 November 1919
NLB/57/462	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Chancellor, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand	11 November 1919
NLB/57/464	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to to Professor DO [Sir David Orme] Masson, FRS	11 November 1919
NLB/64/457	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Orme Masson, FRS; Australian National Research Council, Royal Society's House, 5 Elizabeth Street, Sydney	18 April 1923
NLB/67/91	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Orme Masson, FRS	20 October 1924
NLB/67/78	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Orme Masson, KBE, FRS	16 October 1924
EC/1903/08	Masson, Sir David Orme: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/57	New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/14/66	Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'Ionic velocities' by David Orme Masson	6 February 1899
PP/17/21	Paper, 'Some suggestions regarding solutions' by William Ramsay	1891
MC/19/603	Letter from David Orme Masson, The University of Melbourne, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison	26 July 1904
MC/19/604	Letter from David Orme Masson, The University of Melbourne, to Dr [Joseph] Larmor	16 August 1904
MC/19	Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1904

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