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 Australian Natural History medallion for his contributions to Australian malacology (study of molluscs). Gabriel's library and collections was bequeathed to National Museum of Victoria. In 1951 he presented to the Museum the egg collection of his father, Joseph Gabriel, who had been a Museum collector from 1895.

Details

Chronology

1900 - 1963
Career position - Member of the Field Naturalists' Club
1902 - ?
Career position - Pharmacist in Victoria St, Collingwood
1908
Career event - 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, 1936), 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), conchologist and naturalist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (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

McCarthy, G.J.

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