Edward Waller (zoologist)

Edward Waller (1803-1873) was an Irish zoologist.

Waller was a land owner and barrister from Co. Tipperary.He owned Finnoe House, Borrisokane, a summer home in Co. Tyrone and the yacht used by the Belfast Dredging Committee of which he was a member (other members were George Crawford Hyndman, George Dickie and John Gwyn Jeffreys). He was interested in Mollusca and Foraminifera 1867-68 and is honoured in the name Aclis walleri so named by Jeffreys in 1867.

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