The Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia was established in 1885 as the Anthropological Society of Australasia by the Australian physician Alan Carroll. The prefix 'Royal' was added in 1901.[1] The society published the journal Science of Man.
According to a 2003 article published by the National Library of Australia, the society is "nowadays seen as forming part of the ‘lunatic fringe’."https://web.archive.org/web/20071210000359/http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2003/jan03/article5.html