| 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)
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |