Walter Alan Mozley
FRSE
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(20 June 1904 – 16 August 1971) was an English zoologist who was known for his knowledge of freshwater snails, water insects and mollusca, and their impact on tropical disease.
Life
He was born on 20 June 1904 in
Chingford in
Essex
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.
He studied zoology at the
University of Manitoba
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1931–1934. He was awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon Travelling Scholarship by the Smithsonian and in 1934 he returned to Britain to join the Zoology Department of the
University of Edinburgh
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. Here he gained two doctorates (DSc and PhD).
In 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
James Hartley Ashworth
James Hartley Ashworth FRS FRSE DSc SZS (2 May 1874 – 4 February 1936) was a British marine zoologist.
Life
See
He was born on 2, May 1874, in Accrington in Lancashire, the only son of James Ashworth.
He spent most of his early life in Bu ...
,
Charles Henry O'Donoghue
Charles Henry O'Donoghue FRSE FZS (23 September 1885 – 28 November 1961) was an English zoologist who studied molluscs, a malacologist. His publications mostly deal with sea slugs and he also named a number of Bryozoans. A collection of over 700 ...
,
Alfred Ernest Cameron and
Arthur Lancelot Craig-Bennett.
He gained his first professorship as Professor of Zoology at the Training College in
Bagdhad
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in
Iraq
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after the
Second World War
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. He also received a Fellowship from
Johns Hopkins University
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. His final working years were spent at
Schenectady
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College in
New York
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He died on 16 August 1971 at
Lynden, Washington. He is buried in
Greenacres Memorial Park in Washington.
Publications
*''New Freshwater Molluscs from Northern Asia'' (1934)
*''Statistical Analysis of Distribution of Pond Mulluscs'' (1936)
*''Freshwater Mollusca of Tanganyika Territory and Zanzibar'' (1940)
*''An Introduction to Molluscan Ecology'' (1954)
References
1904 births
1971 deaths
People from Chingford
University of Manitoba alumni
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
20th-century British zoologists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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