Arthur Willey FRS (9 October 1867,

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– 26 December 1942) was a British-Canadian zoologist. After education at Kingswood School,

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, he matriculated in 1887 at

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and graduated there with B.Sc. in 1890. After returning from the Marine Station (

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), Naples, he became a fellow at University College London. From 1892 to 1894 he was a biological tutor at

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. From 1894 to 1899 he held the Balfour Studentship of Cambridge, during which he went to the East Indies to investigate the embryology of the pearly nautilus. From 1899 to 1901 he was a lecturer in biology at

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. In 1902 he was elected F.R.S. From 1902 to 1909 he was the director of the Colombo Museum and the editor of ''Spolia Zeylanica''. In 1907 he was a marine biologist for the Ceylon Government. In 1910 he became the Strathcona Professor at

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in Montreal and retired there as professor emeritus in 1932. In 1902 in

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, he married Emily Constance Bowd, and after his retirement in 1932 they lived in a cottage about an hour's drive from Montreal.

Eponyms

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Balanoglossus ''Balanoglossus'' is a genus of ocean-dwelling acorn worms. It has zoological importance because, being hemichordates, they are an "evolutionary link" between invertebrates and vertebrates. ''Balanoglossus'' specimens are deuterostomes, and r ...

jamaicensis'' *'' Ramphotyphlops willeyi''

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Willey, Arthur 1867 births 1942 deaths Alumni of University College London British zoologists Canadian zoologists English zoologists Evolutionary biologists Fellows of the Royal Society Academic staff of McGill University People educated at Kingswood School, Bath People from Scarborough, North Yorkshire British emigrants to Canada