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Charles Walter De Vis (
Birmingham,
England,
May 9 1829 —
Brisbane,
Queensland,
Australia,
April 30 1915), known as
Devis before about 1882, was an
English zoologist and
ornithologist. Initially a
cleric, he gave up his ecclesiastical functions to devote himself to science, initially in England then after 1870 in
Australia.
He was a founder member of the
Royal Society of Queensland of which he served as president in
1888-
1889, and founder member and first vice-president of the
Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.
His principal work concerned the
fossil birds of
Queensland (
Darling Downs) and southern Australia (
Cooper Creek), but he also described a number of extant bird
species. In fact, he was more successful at the latter, because due to insufficient knowledge of
stratigraphy and
evolution, he - like many ornithologists of his tme - mistook
subfossil remains of extant birds for the remains of extinct prehistoric species.
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