Person
Cox, James Charles (1834 - 1912)
FLS
- Born
- 21 July 1834
Mulgoa, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 29 September 1912
Mosman, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physician, Shell collector and Conchologist
Summary
James Cox was one of Sydney's leading medical practitioners. He had an active private practice as a physician and for nearly 50 years was associated with the Sydney Infirmary as a physician, surgeon and reformer of the hospital's management. A pharmacopoeia which he compiled in 1870 initially met with some resistance. Between 1883 and 1901 he lectured in medical principles and practice at the University of Sydney. Cox was also one of the leading naturalists in New South Wales. He was a foundation member of the Entomological Society of New South Wales and later President of its successor, the Linnean Society of New South Wales. In particular he was noted as a conchologist. He discovered many new species. Among his more than 130 publications was the first monograph published in Australia on molluscs, A monograph of Australian land shells (1868). While most of his shells was sold in London 1904 - 1905, some of his collection was donated to the Australian Museum.
Details
Chronology
- 1857
- Education - MD, University of Edinburgh
- 1858
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1859
- Career event - Registered as a medical practitioner in New South Wales
- 1859 - 1866
- Career position - Fellow, Philosophical Society of New South Wales
- 1862
- Career position - Inaugural Secretary, Entomological Society of New South Wales
- 1862
- Career position - Inaugural President, New South Wales Board of Fisheries
- 1862 - 1872
- Career position - Honorary Physician, Sydney Hospital
- 1865 - 1912
- Career position - Member of the Board (and sometime Chairman), Australian Museum
- 1866 - 1912
- Award - Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1868 - 1912
- Award - Fellow, The Linnean Society of London (FLS)
- 1873 - 1876
- Career position - Honorary Consulting Physician, Sydney Hospital
- 1874 - 1904
- Career position - Member of Council, Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1877 - 1879
- Career position - Honorary Surgeon, Sydney Hospital
- 1880 - 1911
- Career position - Honorary Consulting Physician, Sydney Hospital
- 1881 - 1883
- Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1883 - 1901
- Career position - Lecturer in medicine, University of Sydney
- 1888 -
- Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1889 - 1901
- Career position - Honorary physician, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1901
- Career position - Inaugural President, Australian Historical Society
Related entries
Colleague
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- James Charles Cox - Records, 1869 - 1909, UNCAT MSS 306; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Books
- Cox, J. C., An alphabetical list of Australian land shells (Sydney: Frederick W. White, 1909), 84 pp. Details
- Cox, James C., Catalogue of the specimens of the Australian land shells in the collection of J. C. Cox (Sydney: John Alex, Engel, 1864), 46 pp. Details
- Cox, James C., Dr James C. Cox's exchange list of land and marine shells from Australia and the adjacent islands (Sydney: F. Cunninghame, 1868), 81 pp. Details
- Cox, James C., A monograph of Australian land shells (Sydney: William Maddox, 1868), 100 pp. Details
- Cox, James C., An alphabetical list of the fishes protected under the Fisheries Act of 1902, with remarks on each species (Sydney: F. W. White, 1905), 11 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Teale, Ruth, 'Cox, Edward King (1829-1883) and James Charles (1834-1912)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), pp. 482-484. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030450b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- J., B. D. [ie Jackson, Benjamin Daydon], 'Dr James Charles Cox', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 125 (1) (1913), 53-4. Details
- Richardson, J. E., 'Dr. James Charles Cox - Conchologist (1834-1912): Bibliography of natural history papers with an index to his scientific names', Australian Zoologist, 16 (2) (1971), 71-83. Details
- Smith, E. A., '[Obituary: Dr James C. Cox]', Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 10 (1913), 316. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3160981. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/65633462. Details
- 'Cox, James C (18340721-19120929)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-482744. Details
- Rice, Tom, 'Cox, James Charles (1834 - 1912)', Shellers from the past and the present, Conchology Inc., Mactan Island, Philippines, 2023, https://www.conchology.be/?t=9001&id=16360. Details
Theses
- Jensen, Sophie Alice, 'On such a full sea: John MacGillivray (1821 - 1867)', PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2010, 339 pp. Details
See also
- Beechey, D. L., 'Sydney's Molluscs: from Gentlemen to Malacologists' in The Natural History of Sydney, Lunney, Daniel, Hutchings, Pat A. and Hochuli, Dieter, eds (Mosman, N.S.W.: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2010), pp. 107-24. Details
- The University of Sydney School of Medicine online museum, Dramatis personae - Examiners: the Examiners other than those who were Fellows of Senate, Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2024. https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Dramatis_Personae_-_Examiners. Details
- Watson, J. Frederick, The History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911 (Sydney: Government Printer, 1911). Details
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