William Aitcheson Haswell

William Aitcheson Haswell is a Australian zoologist specialized in the Crustacé S, born the August 5th 1854 and died the January 24th 1925.

Haswell studies with the Université of Edinburgh and follows in particular the courses of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) and of Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882). In 1878, it emigrates in Australia. It accepts a station of conservative to the Queensland Museum of Brisbane but preserves only one year this station before going to Sydney. In 1889, it obtains a post of professor of biology.

Apart from its publications on shellfish (it in particular makes appear a Catalog off the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea in 1882), its most famous publication is its handbook Text book off Zoology , which it makes appear in 1899 with the collaboration of Thomas Jeffery Parker (1850-1897), this work will know several republication and will be the reference book for the courses of zoology during several decades.

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