John C. Yaldwyn

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John Cameron Yaldwyn (born December 31, 1929 in Wellington ; † October 9, 2005 ibid) was a New Zealand marine biologist and museum director. His research focus was the crustaceans .

Life

Yaldwyn was the son of John Bradley and Flora Morison Yaldwyn, née Cameron. As a student in Christchurch in the 1940s, he was very interested in archeology and bird fossils found in the Køkkenmøddinger and in the deposits . His interests were promoted by Robert Alexander Falla and Roger Duff of the Canterbury Museum .

After graduating from Christ's College in Christchurch in 1948 , he took part as a student on the Victoria University of Wellington expedition to the Chatham Islands in 1954 . During three weeks at sea, the team from the research vessel Alert collected deep-sea benthos samples and discovered more than 150 new species.

In 1955 Yaldwyn graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a Masters of Science and in 1959 he received a Ph.D. PhD.

From 1959 to 1962 he was an assistant zoologist at the Dominion Museum. From 1960 to 1961 he received a Fulbright Fellowship , with which he studied marine biology at the Allan Hancock Foundation of the University of Southern California . At this time he made lifelong contacts with the Smithsonian Institution . From 1962 to 1968 he was a curator for crustaceans at the Australian Museum in Sydney . In this position he took part in the first collective expedition to the Swain Reefs off the coast of Queensland in 1962 . From 1969 to 1979 he was crustacean curator and assistant director of the National Museum of New Zealand (now the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa ). From 1980 to 1989 he was director of the museum.

Yaldwyn founded the museum's conservation laboratory, which made a major contribution to the long-term maintenance of the collections. Under his leadership, the museum library became one of the best natural history libraries in the southern hemisphere. He was the first director to actively look after the National Museum's records and historical documentation, which dates back to 1865. Yaldwyn actively built up the Māori collections and appointed the first Māori staff. When the opportunity arose to host the Te Māori exhibition in 1984, he played a key role in laying the foundation for the museum's biculturalism.

The first of Yaldwyn's more than 100 scientific articles was published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society in 1952 . In the course of the next 50 years 15 further works and records on archeology and fossils were added, including the 1997 article The status of Gideon Mantell's "first" iguanodon tooth in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa on Gideon Mantell's historical find of the first Iguanodon tooth in England.

In addition to numerous species, Yaldwyn described the genera Lipkius (1960), Notopandalus (1960) and Betaeopsis (1971).

Dedication names

By John C. Yaldwyn the cancers are Alpheopsis yaldwyni , Bathyhippolyte yaldwyni , yaldwyni Bathypaguropsis , Chaceon yaldwyni , Charybdis yaldwyni , Heptacarpus yaldwyni , Lebbeus yaldwyni , Liomera yaldwyni , Nematocarcinus yaldwyni , yaldwyni Neolithodes , yaldwyni Periclimenes , Philocheras yaldwyni , Spongiocaris yaldwyni , Uroptychus yaldwyni , the New Zealand snail Allodiscus yaldwyni , the species of fish Notoclinops yaldwyni from the family of three-finned blennies and extinct species Pachyplichas yaldwyni from the family of stub tails named.

Fonts (selection)

  • Sea floor animals from Otago Harbor, 1956
  • Notes on the environment and age of the sub-fossil deposits of the Martinborough caves, 1958
  • Biological results of the Chatham islands 1954 expedition, part 1: Decapoda Brachyura, Cumacea, Decapoda Natantia, 1960
  • A Stratified Dune Site at Tairua, Coromandel, 1962
  • Australian Seashores in Color, 1969
  • Australian Crustaceans in Color, 1970
  • Preliminary Results of the Auckland Islands Expedition 1972–1973, From Reports of Participants to the Director-General of Lands, 1975
  • Systematics and Ecology of the Land Crabs (Decapoda: Coenobitidae, Grapsidae and Gecarcinidae) of the Tokelau Islands, Central Pacific, 1979
  • The bird fauna of Niue Island, South-West Pacific, with special notes on the white-tailed tropic bird and golden plover, 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Yaldwyn, John C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yaldwyn, John Cameron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand marine biologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellington
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2005
Place of death Wellington