Person
Colliver, Frederick Stanley (Stan) (1908 - 1991)
OBE
- Born
- 22 August 1908
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 25 September 1991
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Fitter and turner, Museum curator, Natural history collector and Naturalist
Summary
Stan Colliver was by trade a fitter and turner (and later toolmaker) who for 20 years worked at the Newport Workshops of the Victorian Railways. His boyhood interest in natural history led to his extensive field collecting and involvement with naturalists' societies throughout his life. He was a stalwart of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, serving as Secretary for many years. In 1948 Colliver moved to Brisbane to become Curator of the Geology Museum at the University of Queensland. He joined the Queensland Naturalists' Club, becoming President in 1951, and was also active in the Royal Society of Queensland, the Anthropological Society of Queensland, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, and the Museum Society of Queensland.
Details
Colliver's prolific collections are now in public museums:
National Museum of Victoria (now Museum Victoria): approximately 200,000 Tertiary fossils;
Queensland Museum: approx 400,000 Mollusca, 5,000 geological specimens, and anthropological material; the shell collection was notable for the extent of its geographic and taxonomic coverage, and includes the collection of F. Baker (which Colliver acquired from his estate), that of S. C. Richardson (given to him by Richardson's family), and duplicates from the J. H. Simmonds collection (the main part of which donated to Queensland museum 1974).
Chronology
- October 1932 - 1946
- Career position - Secretary, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- 1946 - 1947
- Career position - President, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
- 1947 - 1948
- Career position - Secretary, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- 1948
- Career position - Foundation Member, Anthropological Society of Queensland
- 1948 - 1973
- Career position - Curator of collections, Department of Geology, University of Queensland
- 1948 - 1991
- Career position - Member, Queensland Naturalists' Club
- 1951 - 1952
- Career position - President, Queensland Naturalists' Club
- 1956 - 1981
- Career position - Member, Place Names Committee, Queensland Department of Lands
- 1961
- Career position - Secretary, Anthropology Section, 1961 Meeting of Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Brisbane
- 1963 - 1975
- Career position - Member, Advisory Board, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
- 1964
- Career position - Foundation member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
- 1971
- Career position - Secretary, Anthropology Section, 1971 Meeting of Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Brisbane
- 1975 - 1984
- Career position - Vice-Chairman, Advisory Board, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
- 1985
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1986
- Award - Queensland Museum Medal
- 1990 - 1991
- Award - Fellow, Royal Society of Queensland
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Harrison, Jennifer, 'Colliver, Frederick Stanley (Stan) (1908 - 1991)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 19: 1991 - 1995 A-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021), pp. 174-5. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/colliver-frederick-stanley-stan-15919. Details
Journal Articles
- Colliver, F. S., 'An author index for the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 1884-1959, and the Transactions of the Queensland Philosophical Society, 1859-1882'', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 71 (1959), 65-101. Details
- Colliver, F. S., 'Charles Leslie Barrett, F.R.Z.S., C.M.Z.S.', The Victorian naturalist, 76 (1959), 110-11. Details
- Colliver, F. S., 'Dr. F. W. Whitehouse, 1900 - 1973', Queensland Naturalist, 21 (1/2) (1974), 33-4. Details
- Colliver, F. S. (compiler), 'Bibliography of J. H. Gatliff', The Victorian naturalist, 64 (1948), 247-50. Details
- Healy, J., 'Interesting specimens from the Colliver collection', The Radula 8(1):1-4, 8 (1) (1991), 1-4. Details
- Hegarty, E.; Jahnke, B. R.; McKenzie, E. E.; and Marks, E. N., 'Obituary: Frederick Stanley Colliver 1908 - 1991', Queensland naturalist, 31 (3/4) (1992), 49-53. Details
- Stanisic, John, 'The Colliver shell collection', Queensland naturalist, 31 (3/4) (1992), 54-7. Details
- Willis, J. H., 'A tribute to the late Frederick Stanley Colliver', The Victorian naturalist, 109 (5) (1992), 191. Details
See also
- Fagg, Murray, 'Colliver, Frederick Stanley (Stan) (1908 - 1991)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, https://www.eoas.info/Colliver, Frederick Stanley (Stan) (1908 - 1991). Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 27 May 2022