Edward Bagnall Poulton

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Edward Bagnall Poulton (January 27, 1856-November 20, 1943) was a British zoologist. He became Hope Professor of Zoology at Oxford in 1893.

Beginning in 1873, he studied at the University of Oxford under George Rolleston and John Obadiah Westwood, graduating in zoology.

Contents 1 Family 2 Awards and honours 3 Works 3.1 Published works 3.2 Letters 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Family

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

[edit] 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].

[edit] Works

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Letters

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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