Robert Gurney

Male, Deceased Person

1879 – 1950

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Who was Robert Gurney?

Robert Gurney was a British zoologist from the Gurney family, most famous for his monographs on British Freshwater Copepoda and the Larvae of Decapod Crustacea. He was not affiliated with any institution, but worked at home, initially in Norfolk, and later near Oxford. He travelled to North Africa and Bermuda, and received material from other foreign expeditions, including the Terra Nova Expedition and the Discovery Investigations of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Born
Jul 31, 1879
Education
  • Eton College
Died
Mar 5, 1950

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on July 23, 2013

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