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ZOOLOGISTS, especially those interested in the study of Mollusca, will learn with regret that Mr. G. C. Robson has been compelled by ill-health to resign from the scientific staff of the British Museum (Natural History). Mr. Robson went to the Museum from Oxford in 1911 as an assistant in the Department of Zoology, and devoted his attention to the Mollusca, studying more especially their anatomy and ecology. Among his more important works were his account of parthenogenesis in the gasteropod Palu-destrina and his contributions to the systematics of the Cephalopoda, especially the Octopoda, on which he wrote a monograph published in two volumes by the Museum in 1929 and 1931. His interest in the more general aspects of biology is shown in his book “The Species Problem” (1928) and in the recent volume “The Variation of Animals in Nature” (1936), in which he collaborated with Dr. O. W. Richards. In 1931 he was appointed one of the two deputy keepers in the Department of Zoology. Mr. Robson's work at the Museum has brought him into contact with malacologists all over the world, and his many friends will hope that freedom from official responsibility will bring about his restoration to health and to scientific activity.
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Mr. G. C. Robson. Nature 139, 19 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139019a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139019a0