David Joseph Scourfield FLS FRMS

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(October 20, 1866 – October 3, 1949) was a British civil servant and biologist known as an authority on the

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. He served as president of the

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and vice president of the

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. Born in

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, he was hired by the

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at age 20 and worked there until his retirement in 1926, when he was awarded the

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for his services. His scientific career primarily took place after retirement from civil service, publishing on fossil and living freshwater crustaceans. He died at his home in

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at the age of 83. He has been honoured in the names of two types of marine taxa, in 1912, botanist

George Stephen West George Stephen West (20 April 1876 – 7 August 1919), ARCS, FLS, was a British botanist, a specialist in phycology and protistology, a botanical illustrator and a writer. With his father. botanist William West (West, 1848–1914), he collab ...

published ''

Scourfieldia ''Scourfieldia'' is a genus of green algae in the family Scourfieldiaceae. ''Cardiomona'' Korshikov is an invalid synonym. The genus was circumscribed by George Stephen West in J. Bot. vol.50 on page 326 in 1912. The genus name of ''Scourfie ...

'', which is a

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in the family

Scourfieldiaceae Scourfieldiaceae is a family of green algae in the order Scourfieldiales.See the NCBI The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institut ...

. Then in 1975, I.Manton published ''

Pseudoscourfieldia ''Pseudoscourfieldia'' is a genus of green algae in the family Pycnococcaceae. The genus name of ''Scourfieldia'' is in honour of David Joseph Scourfield Fellow of the Linnaean Society, FLS FRMS Imperial Service Order, ISO (1866–1949), who was ...

'' (in the Pycnococcaceae family).

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1866 births 1949 deaths British carcinologists People from Bow, London Companions of the Imperial Service Order 20th-century British zoologists {{UK-zoologist-stub