Charles Walter De Vis
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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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