Charles Walter De Vis
Charles Walter De Vis ( until 1882 Devis, born May 9, 1829 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; † April 30, 1915 in Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ) was a British- Australian clergyman, zoologist and museum director. His research interests were herpetology, paleontology and ornithology.
Life
De Vis was the son of James and Mary Devis (nee Chambers ) in Birmingham to the world. The family was related to portrait painters of the same name. After the completion of Edward VI Grammar School in Birmingham De Vis studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1884 and Master of Arts in 1851. In 1851 he became a deacon and in 1853 rector of St. John's, Brecon, Wales. His great natural history interest, however, led to the fact that he was in Manchester shortly after 1862 a curator at the Queen's Park Museum. Here he wrote his first scientific articles and has been a member of the Anthropological Society.
In June 1870, De Vis emigrated to Queensland in Australia. He first settled at Black Gin Creek near Rockhampton and then at Clermont. After a visit to England, he was a librarian in the Rockhampton School of Arts. From 1880 to 1882 he wrote under the pseudonym " Thickthorn " 18 geological and ornithological articles in the Journal Queenslander. The quality of these products prompted the trustee of the Queensland Museum, set De Vis as a curator. He started working in February 1882 and was appointed director in 1901. He held until his retirement in 1905, a post. Until 1912, he served as a consultant for the museum.
De Vis specializes mainly in the areas of paleontology and systematic vertebrate zoology. Despite limited financial resources and a small staff, he contributed significantly to the increase in the Museum collection. He also built up a reference library and oversaw the relocation of the museum of the public library to the exhibition building in Bowen Park. 1891 De Vis founded the museum journal The Annals of the Queensland Museum, where among other things, wrote William MacGregor posts on New Guinea.
De Vis described 551 extant and fossil taxa, including the Skinkart Concinnia queenslandiae that Gleitbeutlerart Petaurus gracilis, the Spiegeldickichtschnäpper, the Great Pittadrossel, the long-tailed crawler catcher, the Bergwaldschnäpper, the brown back - thick head that Blaukappenflöter, the Papua Dornschnabel, the Prachtkleiber, the leaves honeyeater, the Papua Pieper, the Papuasericornis that Bergamadine, ferrous warts Honeyeater, the mountain Dornschnabel, Mallomys aroaensis, the Bennett tree Kangaroo, Dobsonia pannietensis, Carlia munda and Cyrtodactylus louisiadensis.
In the 50 years after 1865 De Vis published about 130 scientific papers in various journals, including The Zoologist, in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, in the Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London, in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales and the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, in the Annals of the Queensland Museum and in the Annual Reports of the administrator of HM Government in New Guinea.
De Vis was a member of various organizations, including the Royal Society of Queensland, in the British and Australian Ornithologists ' Union, in the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. From 1888 to 1889 he was president of the Royal Society of Queensland and in 1901 he was elected first vice president of the Australian Ornithologists ' Union. 1886 and 1888 he led exhibitions in London and Melbourne. In his last years he worked on a comparative vocabulary of Aboriginal languages. De Vis was married twice. His first wife died in 1897 in Wellington, New Zealand. On September 9, 1898, he married Katherine Elizabeth Luckle widow, born Coulsen. He died on 30 April 1915 in Enoggera, a northern suburb of Brisbane and was buried in the Church of England section in the cemetery at Toowong.
Dedikationsnamen
1920 designated the two Australian herpetologists Edgar Waite and Hebar Longman the snake Denisonia devisi by De Vis. In 1987, the fossil Koalaart Madakoala devisi was named after him.