| Reference number | EC/1921/10 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 201; A01118 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Calman, William Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse |
| Citation | A leading authority on Crustacea and Pycnogonida, to the study of which he has made important contributions, containing discussions on numerous questions of general interest in relation to morphology, classification, bionomics, and geographical distribution. His volume on 'Crustacea' (Part vii, 1909, of Sir Ray Lankester's 'Treatise on Zoology') gives a comprehensive account of this group, and contains much original matter. In 1896 (Trans Roy Soc Edin) he demonstrated the importance of 'Anaspides' as a survivor of the Carboniferous Syncarida, and he has investigated allied palaeozoic forms (Geol Mag 5, 1911), as well as the recent Bathynella (1899), a genus of exceptional interest. In the 'Brachyura of Torres Straits' (Trans Linn Soc, 1900) he discusses the bionomics of the gall-forming crab 'Hapalocarcinus'. A new classification of Malacostraca was suggested by him in 1904 (Ann Mag Nat Hist). In describing the Malacostraca of Lake Tanganyika (Proc Zool Soc, 1906), his arguments tend to disprove the 'halolimnic theory.' Of several important Memoirs on Cumacea, the papers in Trans Zool Soc, 1907 and 1911 may be specially mentioned. An account of 'Puerulus' (Ann Mag Nat Hist, 1909) contains interesting facts bearing on the life-history of the Spiny Lobsters. Has also done important work on Pycnogonida (Science Progress, 1909), where he discusses the significance of the decapodous forms, and in his account of the collection of the Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition, 1915. |
| Proposers | S F Harmer; E Ray Lankester; T R R Stebbing; P C Mitchell; R I Pocock; E W MacBride; A Alcock; D'Arcy W Thompson; F A Bather; C T Regan; A Dendy; E Heron-Allen |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1741 | Calman; William Thomas (1871 - 1952) | 1871 - 1952 |