Biographical entry Gatliff, John Henry (1848 - 1935)

Summary

John Gatliff worked in the banking industry from the age of 18 until he retired in 1912. However, he is most noted for his studies of shells. This life-long interest saw Gatliff discover several new species of shells including Conus segravei (1891), Voluta spenceriana (1908) and V. gatliffi (1910). He also wrote many important publications including the nine-part Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria (written with GB Pritchard). From 1907 he teamed up with Charles Gabriel and over the next twenty-three years they regularly updated the catalogue, published twenty-seven papers and described forty-five new taxa. John Gatliff was appointed Honorary conologist at the National Museum of Victoria in 1933.

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Events

1857

Life event - Migrated to Australia (Geelong, Victoria) with family

1880 -

Career position - Member of the Field Naturalists' Club

1880

Career position - Joined the Commercial Bank of Australia

1883

Career position - Publication of first article: "The Pecten" in Southern Science Record

1885 - 1889

Career position - Manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Heathcote branch

1889 - 1895

Manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Collingwood branch

1891

Career position - Described a new species of Victorian molluscs Conus segravei

1895 - c. 1910

Career position - Manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Carlton branch

1898 - 1906

Career position - Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria (written with G.B. Pritchard) published in 9-parts

1910 - 1912

Career position - Inspector of the Commercial Bank of Australia

1912

Life event - Retired

1933 -

Career position - Honorary Conologist at the National Museum of Victoria

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Smith, Brian J., 'Gatliff, John Henry (1848-1935)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 629-630. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080645b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 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

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535474. Details
• 'Gatliff, John Henry (1848-1935)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1461259. Details