Person
Gatliff, John Henry (1848 - 1935)
- Born
- 17 May 1848
Leeds, Yorkshire, England - Died
- 14 September 1935
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Conchologist and Naturalist
Summary
John Gatliff worked in the banking industry from the age of 18 until he retired in 1912. However, he is most noted for his studies of shells. This life-long interest saw Gatliff discover several new species of shells including Conus segravei (1891), Voluta spenceriana (1908) and V. gatliffi (1910). He also wrote many important publications including the nine-part Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria (written with GB Pritchard). From 1907 he teamed up with Charles Gabriel and over the next twenty-three years they regularly updated the catalogue, published twenty-seven papers and described forty-five new taxa. John Gatliff was appointed Honorary conchologist at the National Museum of Victoria in 1933.
Details
Chronology
- 1857
- Life event - Migrated to Australia (Geelong, Victoria) with family
- 1880 -
- Career position - Member of the Field Naturalists' Club
- 1880
- Career position - Joined the Commercial Bank of Australia
- 1883
- Career position - Publication of first article: "The Pecten" in Southern Science Record
- 1885 - 1889
- Career position - Manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Heathcote branch
- 1889 - 1895
- Career position - Manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Collingwood branch
- 1891
- Career event - Described a new species of Victorian molluscs Conus segravei
- 1895 - c. 1910
- Career position - Manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Carlton branch
- 1898 - 1906
- Career event - Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria (written with G.B. Pritchard) published in 9-parts
- 1910 - 1912
- Career position - Inspector of the Commercial Bank of Australia
- 1912
- Life event - Retired
- 1933 - 1935
- Career position - Honorary Conologist at the National Museum of Victoria
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Smith, Brian J., 'Gatliff, John Henry (1848-1935)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 629-630. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080645b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Colliver, F. S. (compiler), 'Bibliography of J. H. Gatliff', The Victorian naturalist, 64 (1948), 247-50. Details
- Gabriel, C. J., 'John Henry Gatliff', The Victorian naturalist, 52 (1935), 117-8. Details
- Smith, Brian J, and Black, Hope, 'Biographies, combined bibliography and new names list of John Henry Gatliff (1848 - 1935) and Charles john Gabriel (1879 - 1963)', Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 1 (12) (1969), 32-40. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535474. Details
- 'Gatliff, John Henry (1848-1935)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1461259. Details
- Rice, Tom, 'Gatliff, John Henry (1848 - 1935)', Shellers from the past and the present, Conchology Inc., Mactan Island, Philippines, 2023, https://conchology.be/?t=9001&id=19055. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 March 2022
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