Collinge, Walter Edward

Education

Student United College 1891-1892 N. Hist.; Bot.

D.Sc. 6.7.1916. Demonstrator in biology, St Andrews University 1891. Assistant to Professor M’Intosh - Walker Trust research scholar 1915 - 17. Carnegie Fellow 1916 - 19.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1867 and variously said to be from Banbury, Oxfordshire and Huddersfield.

Career

Demonstrator in biology, St Andrews University 1891. Assistant to Professor M’Intosh - Walker Trust research scholar 1915 - 1917. Carnegie Fellow 1916 - 1919.

Also at Huddersfield College and Yorkshire College.

Lecturer in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Birmingham University - M.Sc. Birmingham. [University lecturer]

Keeper of Yorkshire Museum 1921 -1941 (retired).

Published books and papers. Edited Journal of Economic Biology . Founded Journal of Malacology.

The Skull of the Dog. A Manual for Students. (London: Dulau & Co., 1896)

Death

Died York 24.11.1947.

Sources

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