Charles Henry O'Donoghue

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FZS (23 September 1885 – 28 November 1961) was an English zoologist who studied

molluscs Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

, 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 ...

. His publications mostly deal with

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and he also named a number of

Bryozoa Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic animal, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary Colony (biology), colonies. Typically about long, they have a spe ...

ns. A collection of over 700 items left to the

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is known as the O'Donoghue Collection.

Life

He was born in

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on 23 September 1885 the son of Charles Henry O'Donoghue. He studied zoology at University College London, receiving his degree from the

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. From 1918 to 1927 he was Professor of Zoology at the

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. From 1923 he additionally acted as Director of the Marine Biological Station at

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Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total area, while are of land. The island is the largest ...

. He also helped to establish the Prince Rupert Island and Cultus Lake research stations. In 1928 he became a Reader in natural history at the

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. In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, John Stephenson, Robert Stewart MacDougall and James Ritchie. He won the Society's Neill Prize for the period 1929/31. From 1933 to 1936 he was President of the

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. In 1939 he moved to England as Professor of Zoology at

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, replacing Prof

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. In 1948 he was President of the Science Technologists Association. He taught in Winnipeg, Canada; and Edinburgh, Scotland. Most of the species he described were from the Pacific north-west of

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. He died in

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on 28 November 1961.

Taxa

Species named in honor of this malacologist include: * ''Acanthobothrium odonoghuei'' Campbell & Beveridge, 2002 - a

platyhelminth Platyhelminthes (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates commonly called f ...

* ''Cradoscrupocellaria odonoghuei'' Vieira, Spencer Jones & Winston, 2013 - a bryozoan * ''Doris odonoghuei'' Steinberg, 1963 - a

nudibranch Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs, belonging to the order Nudibranchia, that shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have b ...

* ''Prochristianella odonoghuei'' Beveridge, 1990 - a

The

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(WoRMS) lists 186 marine taxa named by O'Donoghue.WoRMS: Species named by O'Donoghue
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Publications

;Books *''Zoomorphology'' (1917) *''An Introduction to Zoology'' (1921) *''The Fishery Grounds Near Alexandria: Bryozoa'' (1939) ;Papers Scientific papers published by Charles O'Donoghue include: * O'Donoghue, Charles Henry. 1921. Nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 13(1):147-209, pls. 7-11 -5 * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. I. Colour variations. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 14(1):123-130, pl. 2. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922a. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. III. Records of species and distribution. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 14(1):145-167, pls. 5-6. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922b. Notes on the taxonomy of nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Pacific coast of North America. I. On the identification of Cavolina (i.e. Hermissenda) crassicornis of Eschscholtz. Nautilus 35(3):74-77. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922c. Notes on the taxonomy of nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Pacific coast of North America. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 15(2,3):133-150. ** I On ''Cavolina crassicornis'' and ''C. subrosacea'', of Eschscholtz, pp. 133–136. ** II On the genus ''Triopha'', Bergh, pp. 136–138. ** III On ''Flabellina (Aeolis) iodinea'', Cooper, and on ''Thecacera velox'', Cockerell, pp. 138–140. ** IV On ''Janolus (Aeolis) barbarensis'', Cooper, and on the ''Aeolidia herculea'' of Bergh, pp. 140–142. ** V On the family Doriopsidae (Doridopsidae), pp. 142–145. ** VI On ''Fiona marina'', Forskal, pp. 145–147. ** VII On ''Melibe (Chioraera) leonina'', Gould, pp. 147–150. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1924. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. IV. Additional species and records. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 15(1):1-33, pls. 1-2. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1924a. Report on Opisthobranchiata from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, with description of a new parasitic copepod. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 35:521-579, pls. 27-30. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1926. A list of the nudibranchiate Mollusca recorded from the Pacific coast of North America, with notes on their distribution. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 15(2):199-247. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1926a. On the status of the nudibranch genera ''Amphorina'', ''Cratena'', ''Eubranchus'', and ''Galvina''. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17(3):127-131. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1927. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. V. Two new species and one new record. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 16(1):1-12, pl. 1. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1927a. Notes on a collection of nudibranchs from Laguna Beach, California. Journal of Entomology & Zoology, Pomona College 19(1-4):77-119, pls. 1-3. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1929. XXXVIII. Report on the Opisthobranchia. In: Zoological results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 22(6):713-841. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1929a. Opisthobranchiate Mollusca collected by the South African Marine Biological Survey. Union of South Africa. Fisheries & Marine Biological Survey Report No. 7 for the year ending June 1929, pp. 1–84, pls. 1-8. Special Reports No. 1. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1932. Notes on Nudibranchiata from southern India. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20:141-166. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1933. Kelaart's work on the Nudibranchiata of Ceylon. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20(4):221-226, pl. 19. * O'Donoghue, C. H., & Elsie O'DONOGHUE. 1922. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca of the Vancouver Island region. II. The spawn of certain species. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 14(1):131-143, pls. 3-4. * O'Donoghue, C. H., & Kathleen M. WHITE. 1940. A collection of marine molluscs, mainly opisthobranchs, from Palestine. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 24(3):92-96.

References

* La Rocque, A., 1962. ''Contributions to the history of Canadian malacology''. Sterkiana 6: 23-39. {{DEFAULTSORT:ODonoghue, Charles Henry 1885 births 1961 deaths English malacologists 20th-century British zoologists Academic staff of the University of Manitoba Academics of the University of Reading