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John William Brazier (23 September 1842 – 20 August 1930) was a
malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...
from Australia.


Early life

He was born to Captain John Brazier and his wife Mary nee McMillan. His father commanded whaling vessels out of Sydney, Australia, and during his voyages he collected sea shells as a hobby. His son, John junior, accompanied him to sea on at least one of those voyages and he too became interested in collecting sea shells.


Professional life

In 1865 John Brazier junior accompanied Julius Brenchley on the voyage of H.M.S. Curacoa to
Norfolk Island Norfolk Island ( , ; ) is an States and territories of Australia, external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head, New South Wales, Evans Head and a ...
,
Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...
,
Tonga Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...
,
Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
, the
New Hebrides New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium () and named after the Hebrides in Scotland, was the colonial name for the island group in the South Pacific Ocean that is now Vanuatu. Native people had inhabited the islands for three th ...
, the
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...
and
New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
. After several other shell collecting expeditions in
Australasia Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia). The term is used in a number of different context ...
he joined
William John Macleay Sir William John Macleay (13 June 1820 – 7 December 1891) was a Scottish-Australian politician, naturalist, zoologist, and herpetologist. Early life Macleay was born at Wick, Caithness, Scotland, second son of Kenneth Macleay of Keiss and h ...
's 1875 expedition in the Chevert to
New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
via the
Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately . The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, ...
. In the early 1880s Brazier curated the shell collections at the
Australian Museum The Australian Museum, originally known as the Colonial Museum or Sydney Museum. is a heritage-listed museum at 1 William Street, Sydney, William Street, Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD, New South Wales. It is the oldest natural ...
and at first also the ethnological, historical and numismatic collections. By 1891 the shell collections had grown so large that Brazier curated only marine shells.


Works

*Brazier, J. (1870). Descriptions of three new species of marine shells from the Australian coast. ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1870:108-110. *Brazier, J. (1875). Descriptions of ten new species of shells from the collection of Mr. Charles Coxen, of Brisbane, Queensland. ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1875:31-34, pl. 4. *Brazier, J. (1875). .. describing fourteen new species of terrestrial, fluviatile, and marine shells from Australia and the Solomon Islands... ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 1:1-9. *Brazier, J. (1876). A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert Expedition, with the description of the new species. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', 1, 151–162. *Brazier J. (1877). Description of three new species of shells, from Australia and New Guinea.''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 2: 25-27 6*Brazier J. (1877). Mollusca collected during the Chevert Expedition. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 2: 55-60. *Brazier, J. (1877) Shells collected during the Chevert Expedition. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', 1, 224–240. *Brazier, J. (1877). Continuation of the Mollusca of the Chevert Expedition, with new species. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales''. 1: 283-301. *Brazier, J. (1877). Continuation of the Mollusca of the Chevert Expedition. amily Littorinidae – Family Planaxidae – Family Rissoidae ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 1: 362-368 *Brazier, J. (1878) Continuation of the Mollusca of the Chevert Expedition. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', 2, 368–369. *Brazier, J. (1883) Synonymy of Australian and Polynesian Land and Marine Mollusca. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales''. Vol. 8, pp. 224–234 *Brazier, J. (1886). Notes on the distribution of Ceratella fusca, Gray. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 21 : 575-577. *Brazier, J. 1887. Trochidae and other genera of South Australia with their synonyms. ''Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia'' 9: 116-125. *Brazier, J. (1889) Notes and critical remarks on a donation of shells sent to the museum of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. ''Journal of Conchology'', 6, 66–84. *Brazier, J. (1891). Description of a new cone from Mauritius. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', series 2, 6:276, pl. 19. *Brazier, J. (1894). ..a magnificent new cone, Conus pulcherrimus... ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', series 2, 9:187. *Brazier, J. (1896) A new genus and three new species of Mollusca from New South Wales, New Hebrides, and Western Australia. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', 21, 345–347. *Brazier, J. (1896) New species of cone from the Solomon Islands. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', series 2, 10:471. *Brazier, J. (1898). Four new species of Mollusca from Victoria. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 23:271-272. *Brazier, J. (1898). New marine shells from the Solomon Islands and Australia. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 22:779-782.


References


External links

* http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030206b.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Brazier, John 1842 births 1930 deaths 19th-century Australian biologists Colony of New South Wales people Australian malacologists