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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker updated 2025-05-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000039b.htm person De Vis Charles Walter AACR2 9 May 1829 30 April 1915 Place of Birth Birmingham, England Place of Death Toowong, Queensland, Australia Zoologist Ornithologist Minister of religion Charles De Vis was Curator of the Queensland Museum 1882-1905 but remained on the staff as consulting scientist until 1912. He gave up the church early in his career to devote himself to science, first in England and later in Australia.

Born Charles Devis, 9 May, 1829, Birmingham, England, adopting the spelling 'De Vis' about 1882. Died Brisbane, 30 April 1915. Educated University of Cambridge (BA 1851, MA 1884). Rector of Brecon, Somersetshire; Curator of Queen's Park Museum, Manchester. Arrived Australia 1870 and settled in the Rockhampton area where he was School of Arts librarian; contributed articles to the Queenslander 1880-81, using the nom-de-plume 'Thickthorn'; Curator Queensland Museum 1885-1905, consultant 1905-12. Did important early work on fossil birds, working on specimens from the Darling Downs in Queensland and Cooper Creek in South Australia (some of which were collected by J.W. Gregory). Many of the 'new' taxa discovered by de Vis have been synonymised by the later work of Patricia Vickers Rich and Gerard van Tets (qq.v.), but his work, according to Rich, 'painted the first pictures of the fossil birds of Central Australia, most of which were of Quaternary age'. Founding member, Royal Society of Queensland 1884, president 1888-89; Foundation member Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1901 and first Vice-President.

1851 1851 Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Cambridge, UK 1870 1870 Life event - Arrived in Australia c. 1871 Career position - School of Arts Librarian in Rockhampton, Queensland c. 1882 c. 1882 Life event - Changed name from Devis to De Vis 1884 1884 Career position - Founding member, Royal Society of Queensland 1884 1884 Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Cambridge 1885 1905 Career position - Curator, Queensland Museum 1888 1889 Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland 1893 1893 Career position - President, Section D (Biology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1901 1901 Career position - Foundation member, Australasian Ornithologists' Union and first Vice-President 1905 1912 Career position - Consultant to the Queensland Museum 1915 1915 Award - Honorary Member, Field Naturalists' Club of Queensland Field Naturalists' Club of Queensland (1906 - 1922)

Honorary Member 1915

 Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1910 - 1997)

Member 1910 - 1915

 Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1901 - 1910)

Founding Member 1901 - 1910

 Queensland Museum

Curator 1882 - 1905

 Royal Society of Queensland (1884 - )

President 1888 - 1889

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

Original member 1888; President, Section D (Biology) 1893

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 'De Vis, Charles Walter', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology De Vis, Charles Walter Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The Queensland Museum, 1855-1955 Mack, George The Queensland Museum, 1855-1955 1956 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13 2 107-24 Journal Article: Some Founders of Australian Fish Science Whitley, G. Some Founders of Australian Fish Science 1948 Australian Museum Magazine 9 Book Section: De Vis, Charles Walter (1829-1915), clergyman, zoologist and museum director Gilbert, L. A. De Vis, Charles Walter (1829-1915), clergyman, zoologist and museum director Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1972 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J Douglas Pike 63-64 Journal Article: The Writings of Thickthorn Ingram, Glen The Writings of Thickthorn 1986 Wildlife Australia 23 1 6-7 Journal Article: Presidential address in Section D : Biology. Life De Vis, C. W. Presidential address in Section D : Biology. Life Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1894 Report of the fifth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 5 104-18 Journal Article: Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history Turnbull, Paul Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history 2015 Museum & society 13 1 72-87 Journal Article: Herpetological type specimens held at the Queensland Museum: a catalogue Amey, Andrew P. and Couper, Patrick J. Herpetological type specimens held at the Queensland Museum: a catalogue 2022 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - nature: 64: 19-259 64 19-259 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001 Journal Article: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Australian Snake Taxonomists and a history of the Taxonomy of Australia's Venomous Snakes Williams, David, Wuester, Wolfgang and Fry, Bryan Grieg The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Australian Snake Taxonomists and a history of the Taxonomy of Australia's Venomous Snakes 2009 Toxicon 48 7 919-930 Charles Walter De Vis - Records Queensland Museum Library Charles Walter De Vis - Records 1882 - 1912 Documents relating to De Vis are held in the records of the Queensland Museum 1882-1912 including a lengthy key he compiled to assist with the identification of spiders.