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'Edward Bagnall Poulton' (January 27 1856–November 20 1943) was a British zoologist. He became Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1893.
Between 1873 and 1876, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford under George Rolleston and John Obadiah Westwood, graduating with a first-class degree in natural science.^[1] He maintained an unbroken connection with the college for seventy years as scholar, lecturer and fellow (appointed to a fellowship in 1898) until his death. He was know as a generous benefactor to the college, providing silver for the high table and redecorating the Old Bursary amongst other donations.^[2]

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Family

Awards and honours

Works

Published works

Letters

References

External links

Family

Poulton's son, Ronald Poulton-Palmer played international rugby for England and was killed in World War I.

Awards and honours

★ He was the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937.

★ He was knighted in 1935.

★ He presented the theory of butterfly mimicry.

★ He won the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1914

★ And the Linnean Society's Linnean Medal in 1922.

Works

Poulton had over 200 publication spanning over sixty years. His most widely known work was probably ''The Colours of Animals''.

Published works

★ Poulton, E. B. (1890) ''The Colours of Animals''

★ Poulton, E. B. (1904) "What is a species?", (Presidential address to the Entomological Society of London, Jan 1904), ''Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1903''

★ Poulton, E. B. (1908) ''Essays on Evolution''

★ Poulton, E. B. (1915) ''Science and the Great War: The Romanes Lecture for 1915'', Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Letters

References

1. Poulton, Sir Edward Bagnall (1856–1943)
2. Jesus College 1571 – 1971, , J. N. L., Baker, , ,

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★ Biography