Biographical entry Gabriel, Charles John (1879 - 1963)

Summary

Charles John 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 Natural History medallion for his contributions to Australian malacology (study of molluscs).

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Events

1900 -

Career position - Member of the Field Naturalists' Club

1902 - ?

Career position - Pharmacist in Victoria St, Collingwood

1908

Career position - 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 - Natural History Medallion received

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Smith, Brian J., 'Gabriel, Charles John (1879-1963)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981, p. 606. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080621b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Gabriel, Charles John', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462100. Details