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
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. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070636b.htm. 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 2023
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