Walter Garstang

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Walter Garstang (born February 9, 1868 in Blackburn , † February 23, 1949 in Oxford ) was a British zoologist .

Garstang initially wanted to study medicine. Under the influence of Henry Nottidge Moseley he turned to zoology and studied at Oxford (Jesus College) with the degree in 1888. He was then assistant to the director of the marine biological research station in Plymouth, Gilbert C. Bourne. In 1891 he spent a year at Owens College in Manchester with the embryologist Arthur Milnes Marshall . From 1893 he became a fellow of Lincoln College in Oxford, where he was a lecturer and colleague of Ray Lankester , whom he already knew from Plymouth. From 1897 he worked for the fisheries authorities and founded the fishing laboratories in Lowestoft in 1901 , but resigned in 1907 because he did not want to carry out instructions from state officials. From 1907 to 1933 he was Professor of Zoology at the University of Leeds (and first Buckland Professor of Fish Culture ). In 1912 he founded Robin Hood's Bay Marine Laboratory with Albert Denny (University of Sheffield) , which existed until 1982.

He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the Zoological Society of London . Several animal species are named after him.

Garstang studied larvae of marine invertebrates. He rejected the recapitulation theory of Ernst Haeckel , and suggested an alternative theory of the origin of vertebrates (Chordata) from echinoderm larvae before (Garstang's hypothesis, 1894).

Garstang was a friend of Robert Gurney . The archaeologist John Garstang was his brother. The marriage with Lucy Ackroyd in 1895 also resulted in five daughters.

He published a book of poems on zoology, of which Veliger's ballad is particularly well known among zoologists.

Fonts

  • Larval Forms and Other Zoological Verses, Oxford: Blackwell 1951, University of Chicago Press 1985
  • The Theory of Recapitulation: A Critical Re-statement of the Biogenetic Law, Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology, Volume 35, 1922, pp. 81-101
  • The Origin and Evolution of Larval Forms, British Association, Glasgow, 1928
  • The Morphology of the Tunicata, and Its Bearing on the Phylogeny of the Chordata, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Volume 72, 1928, pp. 51-187
  • The Morphology and Relations of the Siphonophora, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Volume 87, 1946, pp. 103-193.

literature

  • Alister C. Hardy, Obituary in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 29, 1951, pp. 561-566.
  • Holland: Walter Garstang: a Retrospective, Theory in Biosciences 130, 2011, pp. 247-258
  • Mark Ridley, article Walter Garstang, Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  • Mark Ridley: Embryology and Classical Zoology in Great Britain, in: T. Horder, JW Witkowski, CC Wylie (Eds.), A History of Embryology, Cambridge, 1986, pp. 35-67.
  • Stephen Jay Gould: Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Cambridge / Massachusetts 1977

References and comments

  1. ↑ Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names, G.
  2. ↑ TC Lacalli: Garstangs's Hypothesis
  3. ↑ The Ballad of the Veliger or how the gastropod got its twist, the first stanza reads: The Veliger's a lively tar, the liveliest afloat, A whirling wheel on either side propels his little boat, But when the danger signal warns his bustling submarine, He stops the engine, shuts the port, and drops below unseen .
personal data
SURNAME Garstang, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackburn
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1949
Place of death Oxford