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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-06-09 human Helen Cohn updated 2024-08-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007001b.htm person Tanner Charles AACR2 19 January 1911 23 December 1996 Place of Birth Brighton, United Kingdom Place of Death Cairns, Queensland, Australia Herpetologist Charles Tanner was a herpetologist who made substantial contributions to the study of Australian reptiles. His principal interest was elapids, and in the discovery of unknown taxa, their collection, preservation and careful documentation. For many years he spent considerable time on field trips to herpetologically little-known areas in company with the Curator of Herpetology at the National Museum of Victoria (later Museum of Victoria), John Coventry. Tanner donated over 1,000 specimens of snakes and frogs to the Museum, where he was an Honorary Associate for over 40 years. In addition he donated, between 1968 and 1990, nearly 900 specimens of snakes, frog and mammals to the Queensland Museum. Included among these collections were a number of type specimens. Tanner was an enthusiastic keeper of snakes which he milked for their venom. The high quality venom thus collected was supplied in dried form to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories and used to make much of the antivenom produced by the Laboratories. Some of the venom he collected is now in the National Collection of Venoms, Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne. Tanner also devised a number of tools for handling snakes that are now widely used. 1953 1983 Career position - Honorary Associate, National Museum of Victoria 1983 1996 Career position - Honorary Associate, Museum of Victoria Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, Commonwealth of Australia (1961 - 1990)

Tanner was a regular supplier of snake venom

 Queensland Museum

The Museum holds over 900 of Tanner's specimens

 Museum of Victoria (1983 - 1998)

Honorary Associate 1983 - 1996; the Museum holds over 1,000 of Tanner's specimens

 National Museum of Victoria (1858 - 1983)

Honorary Associate 1953 - 1983

 'Tanner, Charles', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Tanner, Charles Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Obituary: Charles Tanner, herpetologist Covacevich, J. A.; Sutherland, S. K.; Coventry, A. J.; and Cann, J. Obituary: Charles Tanner, herpetologist 1997 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42 1 377-8 Edited Book: Venom: Fear, Fascination and Discovery Healy, Jacqueline and Winkel, Kenneth D. Venom: Fear, Fascination and Discovery Carlton (Vic.) University of Melbourne. Medical History Museum 2013 Journal Article: The Pioneers of Venom Production for Australian Antivenoms Mirtschin, Peter The Pioneers of Venom Production for Australian Antivenoms 2009 Toxicon 48 7 899-918