William Thomas Calman

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William Thomas Calman

Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Natural History Museum
).

Life

He was born in Dundee, the son of Thomas Calman, a music teacher, and Agnes Beatts Maclean.

He studied at the High School of Dundee.[2]

In the scientific societies in Dundee, he met

University College, Dundee for free. A. D. Peacock, one of Thompson's successors to the chair of Natural history at Dundee, believed this appointment came about following a letter sent by Calman in 1891 asking Thompson's advice as to applying for a post in Edinburgh.[3] After his graduation with distinction in 1895, he took on a lecturership at the university, where he remained for eight years.[4] When Thompson died, Calman, along with Douglas Young, wrote his obituary notice in the Royal Society of Edinburgh Yearbook.[5]

He later worked at the Natural History Museum, where he was appointed assistant curator of Arachnida in 1904 (replacing Pocock), became assistant curator of Crustacea and

Second World War at Queen's College, Dundee and St Andrews. He was president of the Quekett Microscopical Club from 1926 to 1928, president of the Linnean Society from 1934 to 1937, and was awarded the Linnean Medal
in 1946.

He was awarded CB in 1935.

St Andrews University
awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1937.

He died in Coulsdon in Surrey on 29 September 1952.[7]

Publications

  • The Life of Crustacae (1911)
  • The Classification of Animals (1949)

Taxa named by Calman

Taxa named by W. T. Calman include:[8]

References

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William Thomas Calman
  1. ^
    JSTOR 769215
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  2. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1954.tb00715.x
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  3. ^ "UR-SF 2/12/2/1 Letter, W.T. Calman to [D'Arcy Thompson]". Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  4. ^ "William Thomas Calman (1871–1952)". Naturalists. University of Dundee. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
  5. ^ "UR-SF 2/12/3/3 Obituary notices of D'Arcy Thompson". Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  6. ^ "No. 34166". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1935. p. 3596.
  7. ISBN 090219884X
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  8. ^ "Authority begins: "Calman" or "(Calman"". WoRMS taxon search. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 1 November 2011.

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