Person
Cheel, Edwin (1872 - 1951)
- Born
- 14 January 1872
Chartham Hatch, near Canterbury, Kent, England - Died
- 19 September 1951
Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist and Herbarium curator
Summary
Edwin Cheel was Botanical Assistant at the National Herbarium, Sydney from 1908 until becoming Principal Assistant in 1913. In 1924 he was appointed Curator and between 1933-1936 was both Botanist and Curator.
Details
Born Chartham Hatch, near Canterbury, Kent, England, 14 January 1872. Died Ashfield, 19 September 1951. Migrated as a farm-labourer to Mackay, Queensland, May 1892; worked in the cane-fields ca 1894-97; carpenter, Sydney ca 1894-97; gardener, Centennial Park 1897-1901; 'honorary charge' of lichens, National Herbarium, Sydney 1901; outdoor staff, Botanic Gardens 1902-05; in charge of lichens and fungi 1906-08; botanic assistant 1908-13; principal botanical assistant, in charge of the herbarium 1913-24; curator 1924-33; botanist and curator 1933-36. Bronze medal, Royal Society of New South Wales 1943. President, Naturalists' Society 1911-12, 1923-24; president, Linnean Society of New South Wales 1930; president, Horticultural Association 1929-31; president, Royal Society of New South Wales 1932.
Chronology
- 1924
- Career position - President, Naturalists Society of New South Wales
- 1924
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus chisholmi orth. var. Maiden & Blakely. Cheel collected the type material
- 1930 - 1931
- Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1931
- Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1933 - 1936
- Career position - Chief Botanist and Curator, National Herbarium of New South Wales
- 1937
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 1937
- Career position - President, Section M (Botany), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1943
- Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Book Sections
- Smith, Ann G., 'Cheel, Edwin (1872-1951), botanist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 628-629. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cheel-edwin-5571. Details
Journal Articles
- Cheel, Edwin, 'Presidential address', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 66 (1) (1932), 1-55. Details
- Cheel, Edwin, 'Presidential address: A review of the flora of the arid and semi-arid regions of Australia [Section M - Botany]', Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Auckland meeting, January, 1937 (1937), 337-340. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2612815. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91689531. Details
- 'Cheel, Edwin (1872-1951)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-853505. Details
Gavan McCarthy, Christine Moje
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2026
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