Henry Nottidge Moseley

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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.[1]

Life

Moseley was born in Wandsworth, London, the son of Henry Moseley. He was educated at Harrow School, at Exeter College, Oxford (Arts)[2] 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

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[3]

Moseley exerted significant influences on his noted students Halford Mackinder[4] 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[5] (1878).
  • On the Structure of the Sylasteridae (1878).
  • Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger[6] (1879).

Moseley studied

molluscs
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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 person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

See also

References

  • 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.
  1. ISBN 9781786303745
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  2. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
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  3. ^ "Pitt-Rivers and Moseley". Web.prm.ox.ac.uk. 24 September 1920. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  4. ^ Sir Halford Mackinder, 1861 - 1947: Some New Perspectives, by Brian Blouet, Research Paper 13, School of Geography, University of Oxford 1975
  5. ^ Catalog Record: Oregon: its resources, climate, people, and... | Hathi Trust Digital Library. E. Stanford. 1878. Retrieved 16 January 2017 – via Catalog.hathitrust.org.
  6. ^ Catalog Record: Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger",... | Hathi Trust Digital Library. Macmillan and co. 1879. Retrieved 16 January 2017 – via Catalog.hathitrust.org.
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  H.Moseley.
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