H. N. Mosely
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Name
Henry Nottidge Mosely
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Specialities
Algae, Spermatophytes
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Roles
Collector
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Notes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (consulted 19 June 2015)
Henry Nottidge Moseley FRS (14 November 1844 – 10 November 1891) was a British naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of HMS Challenger in 1872 through 1876.
Moseley was born in Wandsworth, London, the son of Henry Moseley. He was educated at Harrow School, at Exeter College, Oxford (Arts)[1] and at the University of London (medicine). He married Amabel Gwyn Jeffreys, daughter of the conchologist John Gwyn Jeffreys, in 1881, and they were the parents of the noted British physicist Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley.
Moseley delivered the Royal Society Croonian Lecture in 1878 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879.He participated as naturalist in expeditions to Ceylon, to California, and to Oregon, and most notably he was in the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872 through 1876 which covered over 120,000 km. of the world's oceans. Moseley began working at the University of London in 1879, and he was awarded the Linacre chair of human and comparative anatomy at Merton College, Oxford in 1881. In the same year, Moseley became involved in the negotiations for the donation of the Pitt-Rivers donation, which would form the Pitt Rivers Museum from 1884. Moseley, with Edward Burnett Tylor, oversaw the transfer of Pitt-Rivers' collection from London to Oxford[2]
Moseley exerted significant influences on his noted students Halford Mackinder[3] and Walter Garstang, who changed his career choice from medicine to zoology under Moseley's supervision. Moseley was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1887.
Moseley's publications include :
On Oregon (1878).
On the Structure of the Sylasteridae (1878).
Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger (1879).
Moseley studied invertebrate biology and the phylogeny of arthropods, coral, and molluscs.
Moseley is commemorated in the Latin name of the species, northern rockhopper penguin, the Eudyptes moseleyi.
The standard author abbreviation H.Moseley is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]
See also[edit]
European and American voyages of scientific exploration
References[edit]
Allen G. Debus (ed.) (1968). World Who’s Who in Science. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Marquis-Who’s Who (Chicago) : xvi + 1855 p.
Jump up ^ "Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, vol.3".
Jump up ^ http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/article-index/12-articles/406-pitt-rivers-and-moseley
Jump up ^ Sir Halford Mackinder, 1861 - 1947: Some New Perspectives, by Brian Blouet, Research Paper 13, School of Geography, University of Oxford 1975
Jump up ^ "Author Query for 'H.Moseley'". International Plant Names Index. -
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