Arthur Willey

Arthur Willey DSc
Born	1867
Died	1942
Residence	21 Craven Road, Willesden, NW Colombo Museum, Ceylon [1902]
Occupation	academic museum work
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1905 last listed elected_AI 1902.01.21 societies Royal Society

Notes

House Notes

Proposed by E.B. Howes; seconded by A.C. Haddon, 1902.01.21

Notes From Elsewhere

obit notices of the fellows of the Royal Society vol. 4, no. 12
Arthur Willey was born on the 9th of October, 1867, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of Emma [unknown] and William Willey, a Wesleyan minister.

The 1881 Census tells us that Arthur was a student at the Woodhouse Grove School, near Bradford, Yorkshire. Arthur continued his education at University College, London and, later, at the Caius College, University of Cambridge, under the tutelage of Andrew Balfour. Arthur’s area of interest was natural history/biology/zoology.

In 1894 Arthur went to the Pacific in search of the eggs of the pearly nautilus, which he found along with many other important biological discoveries. Arthur was a lecturer in Biology at Guy's Hospital, in London England, from 1899-1901; the Director of Colombo Museum from 1902-10; a Professor of Zoology at McGill University from 1909-1932; and a member of the Royal Society of London. He married Constance Dowd in 1902.

Willey's interest in zoology helped form a friendship between himself and prominent zoologist, George Bidder III. UPEI's Provenance copy of By Southern Shore, published in 1899, was written by Bidder and the inscription inside reads:

Arthur Willey, from his friend the author

According to a Canada Ocean Arrivals form, in 1923 Arthur and Constance were living at 58 Metcalfe Street in Montreal. After retirement Arthur and Constance had a cottage built in the Laurentian foothills, fifty miles outside of Montreal.

In April 1940 Arthur suffered a seizure/stroke which left him partially paralyzed, with loss of sight and mental capacity. He was transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal where remained for over two and a half years. His devoted wife was continually at his side until he died on 26 Dec 1942.

Publications

External Publications

Zoological results based on material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere, collected during the years 1895, 1896, and 1897, by Arthur Willey, D. Sc. Lond., Hon. M.A. Cantab

Amphioxus and the ancestry of the vertebrates [electronic resource] / (New York; London : Mcmillan, 1894)

Crustacea. Part K [electronic resource] : marine Copepoda / (Ottawa : T. Mulvey, 1920),

Papers from the Peter Redpath Museum [electronic resource] : No. 1. Organisms and organization / (Montreal : [s.n.], 1917),

Convergence in evolution, by Arthur Willey.