Some History Notes on Optometry's Involvement with the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract

The histories of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Australian Optometrical Association have interacted to the past advantage of optometry. From a fledgling in ANZAAS, optometry has advanced to be a discipline with its own body of knowledge well equippedNo identify and to pursue courses of research to advance the bounds of that body of knowledge. Lacking its own specialist scientific society optometry still seems to need ANZAAS. This paper ends by considering what duties optometry may owe to ANZAAS.