Henry Nottidge Moseley
| Prof. Henry Nottidge Moseley MA FRS | |||||||
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| Born | 1844 | ||||||
| Died | 1891 | ||||||
| Residence |
Oxford Stretton Court, Parkstone, Dorset [1888] | ||||||
| Occupation |
academic anatomist naturalist | ||||||
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Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1886 Member
AI Council 1887 Member
House Notes
Linacre Professor of Anatomy in the University of Oxford
1885.06.09 proposed for election at next meeting
death noted in report of council for 1891
1891.11.24 death announced; described in 1892 E.B. Tylor's presidential address
Notes From Elsewhere
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 Challenger expedition aboard HMS Challenger of 1872 through 1876 which covered over 120,000 km (74,565 mi) 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· [4] (1878).
· On the Structure of the Sylasteridae (1878).
· Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger· [5] (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.
Publications
External Publications
Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations made during The Voyage of H. M. S. "Challenger" Round the World in the Years 1872- 1876
Oregon: Its Resources, Climate, People, and Productions
On The Anatomy And Histology Of The Land-planarians Of Ceylon: With Some Account Of Their Habits And A Description Of Two New Species, And With Notes On Anatomy Of Some European Aquatic Species.
On the Structure and Relations of the Alcyonarian Heliopora caerulea, with some Account of the Anatomy of a Species of Sarcophyton, Notes on the Structure of Species of the Genera Millepora, Pocillopora, and Stylaster ... 1876
On the Structure of a Species of Millepora occurring at Tahiti Society Islands.
1877