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.

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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

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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

Helen Cohn

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