Alan Mozley
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Walter Alan Mozley FRSE (20 June 1904 – 16 August 1971) was an English zoologist who was known for his knowledge of freshwater snails, water insects and mollusca, and their impact on tropical disease.
Life
He was born on 20 June 1904 in Chingford in Essex.
He studied zoology at the University of Manitoba graduating with an BSc then obtained a post in the Smithsonian Institution 1931–1934. He was awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon Travelling Scholarship by the Smithsonian and in 1934 he returned to Britain to join the Zoology Department of the University of Edinburgh. Here he gained two doctorates (DSc and PhD).{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tT8gAQAAMAAJ&q=dr+alan+mozley|title=Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution|first=Smithsonian|last=Institution|date=26 November 2017|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}
In 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Hartley Ashworth, Charles Henry O'Donoghue, Alfred Ernest Cameron and Arthur Lancelot Craig-Bennett.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=15 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}
He gained his first professorship as Professor of Zoology at the Training College in Baghdad in Iraq after the Second World War. He also received a Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University. His final working years were spent at Schenectady College in New York.
He died on 16 August 1971 at Lynden, Washington. He is buried in Greenacres Memorial Park in Washington.
Publications
- New Freshwater Molluscs from Northern Asia (1934){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ySW992PLry4C |title=New Fresh-water Mollusks from Northern Asia |isbn=9780598405951 |access-date=10 June 2023 |last1=Mozley |first1=Alan |year=1934 }}
- Statistical Analysis of Distribution of Pond Mulluscs (1936)
- Freshwater Mollusca of Tanganyika Territory and Zanzibar (1940){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYfqSAAACAAJ |title=The Fresh-water Mollusca of the Tanganyika Territory and Zanzibar Protectorate, and Other Contributions to the Systematics, Bionomics and Distribution of Fresh-water and Terrestrial Mollusca |access-date=10 June 2023 |last1=Mozley |first1=Walter Alan |year=1940 }}
- An Introduction to Molluscan Ecology (1954)
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Category:People from Chingford
Category:University of Manitoba alumni
Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Category:20th-century English zoologists
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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