James Peter Hill

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James Peter Hill (21 February 1873 -24 May 1954) was a British embryologist.

Born in Edinburgh in 1892 he went to Australia. In Australia he formed with a group dubbed "The Fraternity of Duckmaloi" that did studies on the platypus and was named for a noted "hunting ground" for the animal. He is also noted for studies of marsupials. He returned to Britain and UCL in 1906.^[1] He was elected FRS 1913 and in 1921 was made Chair of Embryology and Histology. He received the Darwin Medal in 1940 in large part for his research on marsupials and monotremes. He had retired in 1938, but is said to have continued working at home until his death.^[2]

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1. ^ Platypus by Ann Moyal, pages 160-166
2. ^ Duke University article