Henry Nottidge Moseley
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Henry Nottidge Moseley (14 November 1844 - 10 November 1891) was a British naturalist. He went on the expedition of HMS Challenger 1872-1876. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879.
He studied at Harrow, Oxford (Arts) and the University of London (medicine). He married Miss Jeffreys in 1881, and his son was the British physicist Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley.
He participated as naturalist in expeditions to Ceylon, and to California and Oregon, and most notably the 1872-76 HMS Challenger expedition which covered over 120 000 km. He began to work at the University of London in 1879 and obtained the Linacre chair of human and comparative anatomy at the University of Oxford in 1881. He obtained the Royal Society Medal in 1887.
His publications include :
- On Oregon (1878).
- On the Structure of the Sylasteridae (1878).
- Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger (1879).
He studied invertebrates and the phylogeny of arthropods, coral and molluscs.
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- 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.
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