1. Charles Hedley was a naturalist, specifically a malacologist.
19 Facts About Charles Hedley
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Charles Hedley was born in Britain, but he spent most of his life in Australia.
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Charles Hedley was the winner of the 1925 Clarke Medal.
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Charles Hedley was mainly educated in the south of France; from boyhood he collected mollusc shells, and was greatly influenced by a French work on molluscan anatomy.
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In 1881 Charles Hedley went to New Zealand, and in September 1882 to Sydney.
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Charles Hedley was suffering from asthma and after trying the dry interior found he was in better health when near the sea.
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Charles Hedley took up an oyster lease at Moreton Bay, Queensland, and then tried fruit-growing at Boyne Island, Port Curtis.
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Charles Hedley's first published paper, "Uses of Some Queensland Plants", was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland in 1888, and in the same year he came to Brisbane.
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Charles Hedley did some voluntary work for the Queensland museum and on 1 January 1889 was appointed a supernumerary officer of it.
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Charles Hedley was much interested in the natural history of New Guinea, but he contracted fever, and towards the end of 1890 he went to Sydney.
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Charles Hedley made Sydney his home for the rest of his life.
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In 1901 with Ernest Clayton Andrews Charles Hedley examined the Queensland coast and Great Barrier Reef.
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Charles Hedley was a keen explorer and visited most of the coast of eastern Australia, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and the Ellice Group.
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Charles Hedley had become assistant curator of the Australian museum in 1908 and in 1920 he succeeded Robert Etheridge, Junior as principal keeper of collections.
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Charles Hedley resigned in 1925 to become scientific director of the Great Barrier Reef Investigation Committee.
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Charles Hedley married and left a widow and an adopted daughter.
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Charles Hedley was on the council of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from 1897 to 1924 and was president from 1909 to 1911; he was on the council for 16 years of the Royal Society of New South Wales and was president in 1914; he was a vice-president of the Malacological Society of London from 1923.
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Charles Hedley was awarded the David Syme prize in 1916, and in 1925 received the Clarke Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales.
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Charles Hedley was the only man on the management committee of The Women's Co-operative Silk Growing and Industrial Association of New South Wales Limited, set up in 1893 with the aim of establishing a silk growing industry in New South Wales.