Edwin Cheel

Edwin Cheel
Born	14 January 1872 Chartham, Kent, England
Died	19 September 1951 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Citizenship	Australian
Nationality	Australian
Fields	botany
Known for	Botanical collector

Edwin Cheel (1872–1951) was an Australian botanist and collector.

Before being appointed as a staff member of Centennial Park in 1897 he was a gardener in New South Wales and Queensland. Later he transferred to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.^[1] In 1908 he joined the National Herbarium, and was appointed Chief Botanist and Curator from 1933 to 1936. He described plants in the Myrtle family such as Melaleuca howeana. Apart from the myrtles, his other main botanic interest were the lichens.^[2] He traveled extensively in collection of botanical specimens, which are lodged in New South Wales. He has a street named after him in the suburb of Farrer, in the Australian Capital Territory.

The standard author abbreviation Cheel is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[3]

References

1. ^ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Cheel
2. ^ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Cheel
3. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

External links

• http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/cheel-edwin.html
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Cheel
• http://www.ipni.org/ipni/editAdvAuthorSearch.do;jsessionid=A84EA40E26987D793BBFC0B31BA4C870?find_abbreviation=Cheel&find_surname=&find_isoCountry=&find_forename=&output_format=normal

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Name	Cheel, Edwin
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Date of birth	14 January 1872
Place of birth	Chartham, Kent, England
Date of death	19 September 1951
Place of death	Sydney, NSW, Australia