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WALTER MEDLEY TATTEBSALL, who died on October 5, was born on November 8, 1882, the eldest of a family of eight. He was educated at Liverpool College and the University of Liverpool, where he studied under Herdman, and he graduated with first-class honours in zoology at the age of nineteen. He won a research scholarship at Cambridge and looked forward to the opportunity of working there as a postgraduate student, but he was obliged to abandon his intention owing to the sudden death of his father. He took an appointment as naturalist in the Irish Fisheries Department in 1902, and here, as one of a small band of enthusiasts under the inspiring leadership of E. W. L. Holt, he assisted in the exploration of the rich deep-water fauna on the south-west of Ireland. It was during these years that he first began his studies of the Crustacea. Throughout his life he maintained his interest in this group of animals, and our knowledge of them has been greatly extended by the remarkable series of papers he wrote.
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KEMP, S. Prof. W. M. Tattersall. Nature 152, 592–593 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152592a0
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