Biographical entry Gill, Edmund Dwen (1908 - 1986)

Summary

Edmund Dwen Gill was Deputy Director of the National Museum of Victoria, 1969-1973, Assistant Director 1964-1969 and Curator of Fossils 1948-1964. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1969-1970.

Details

Events

1935

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the University of Melbourne

1938 - 1985

Published more than 70 papers in the Victorian Naturalist

1948 - 1964

Career position - Curator of Fossils at the National Museum of Victoria

1956 - 1965

Career position - Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Victoria

1964 - 1969

Career position - Assistant Director of the National Museum of Victoria

1965 - 1968

Career position - Research Secretary of the Royal Society of Victoria

1968

Award - Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal received

1969 - 1970

Career position - President of the Royal Society of Victoria

1969 - 1973

Career position - Deputy Director of the National Museum of Victoria

1973

Award - Australian Natural History Medallion received from the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria

1973 - 1979

Career position - Honorary Treasurer of the Royal Society of Victoria

1974 - 1979

Career position - Research Fellow in the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Applied Geomechanics in Syndal

Related entries

Archival resources

Deakin University, Warrnambool Collection

• Edmund Gill Collection, 551.09457; Deakin University, Warrnambool Collection. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Edmund Dwen Gill - Records, 1908 - 1986, PA 542 and 884; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Bowler, J., 'Edmund Owen [sic] Gill 1908-1986', Australian Archaeology, vol. 24, June 1987, 1987, pp. 48-52. Details
• Douglas, J., 'Obituary - Edmund Dwen Gill', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 103, no. 6, 1986, p. 185. Details
• Gill, E. D., 'Scientific Societies in Australia. The Royal Society of Victoria', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, vol. 28, 1961, pp. 129-131. Details
• Gill, E. D., 'Beginnings of Science in Victoria', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. 84, no. 2, 1971, pp. 267-269. Details
• Gill, Edmund D., 'Contributions to Science by Early Geologists of the FNCV', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 97, no. 3, 1980, pp. 107-113. Details
• Joyce, E. B., 'Gill, Edmund Dwen (1908-1986), Palaeontologist. Geomorphologist and Museum Administrator', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17, 2007, pp. 434-435. Details
• Sherwood, J., 'Obituary. Edmund Dwen Gill, BA, BD, FGS, FGSAm', Quaternary Australasia, vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, 1986, pp. 62-63. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Gill, Edmund D', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-615040. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000438. Details