Person
Gabriel, Charles John (1879 - 1963)
- Born
- 28 May 1879
Collingwood, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 19 June 1963
Toorak, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Conchologist, Naturalist and Pharmacist
Summary
Charles Gabriel was a pharmacist, but is renowned for his studies of shells and molluscs. He wrote several important articles and books including, Catalogue of the land snails of Victoria (1930), Victorian sea shells (1936), The freshwater Mollusca of Victoria (1939) and Marine molluscs of Victoria (1962, co-authored with J.M. Macpherson). These and many of his other works are still used today. Together with John Gatliff, Gabriel wrote at least twenty-seven publications and named forty-five new taxa. Charles Gabriel was appointed the National Museum of Victoria's honorary curator of shells and in 1958 was awarded the Natural History medallion for his contributions to Australian malacology (study of molluscs). Gabriel's library and collections was bequeathed to National Museum of Victoria.
Details
Chronology
- 1900 - 1963
- Career position - Member of the Field Naturalists' Club
- 1902 - ?
- Career position - Pharmacist in Victoria St, Collingwood
- 1908
- Career position - Publication of first article: "Marine molluscs found near Stoney Point, April 1908" in Victorian Naturalist
- 1933 -
- Career position - Honorary Curator of Shells at the National Museum of Victoria
- 1958
- Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
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Published resources
Books
- Gabriel, Charles J.: illustrations by Joyce K. Allan, Victorian sea shells: a handbook for collectors and students (Melbourne: Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, ), 67 pp. Details
- MacPherson, J. Hope and Gabriel C. J., Marine molluscs of Victoria (Parkville, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1962), 475 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Smith, Brian J., 'Gabriel, Charles John (1879-1963)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), p. 606. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080621b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Gabriel, C. J., 'Catalogue of the land snails of Victoria', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 43 (1930), 62-88. Details
- Gabriel, C. J., 'John Henry Gatliff', The Victorian naturalist, 52 (1935), 117-8. Details
- Gabriel, C. J., 'The freshwater Mollusca of Victoria', Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 11 (1939), 100-39. Details
- Macpherson, Hope, 'Charles John Gabriel', Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 1 (7) (1963), 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/00852988.1968.10673792. 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/Q16750510. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/120384856. Details
- 'Gabriel, Charles John (1879-1963)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462100. Details
- Rice, Tom, 'Gabriel, Charles John (1879 - 1963)', Shellers from the past and the present, Conchology Inc., Mactan Island, Philippines, 2023, https://www.conchology.be/?t=9001&id=18869. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 March 2022
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