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.

Works

Waller, Edward 1867 Report on the Foraminifera obtained in the Shetland Seas. Report Brit. Assoc.(Dundee, 1867), 1867, pp. 44 1 -446. London.
Waller, Edward 1868 Report on the Shetland Foraminifera for 1868. Report Brit. Assoc. (Norwich, 1868), 1868, pp. 340, 341. London.

References

Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names (BEMON)

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