William Harding Longley
American botanist and ichthyologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Harding Longley was an American botanist. Longley was born in 1881 in Nova Scotia. He attended Acadia and Yale. From 1911 to 1937, he spent as a professor of biology and botany, at Goucher College in Baltimore. His biggest work in science was a study of roles of color and pattern in the tropical reef fishes, which was done with the assistance of Dry Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, where he worked as a director from 1922 to 1937. He studied distribution and evolution of the species as well. He studied a lot of plants in places like Hawaii, Samoa, Tortugas, and the Pacific, and examining some in European and American museums. he died in 1937.
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- Taxonomy and Evolution (1933) (229)
- Systematic Catalogue of the Fishes of Tortugas, Florida. (1942) (60)
- Studies upon the biological significance of animal coloration. I. The colors and color changes of West Indian reef‐fishes (1917) (33)
- Systematic catalogue of the fishes of Tortugas, Florids with observations on color, habits, and local distribution by William H. Longley ... Edited and completed by Smauel F. Hildebrand ... (1941) (11)
- Studies Upon the Biological Significance of Animal Coloration. II. A Revised Working Hypothesis of Mimicry (1917) (9)
- Species Studies and the Species Problem (1936) (3)
- ON THE LAWS OF KINETIC SYSTEMS. (1932) (2)
- A NOTE UPON THE PROBABLE MODE OF EVOLUTION. (1929) (1)
- Record Unit 7223 William Harding Longley Papers, 1892-1904, 1913-1935 and undated (0)
- EVOLUTION A DETAIL IN THE DYNAMICS OF POPULATIONS. (1931) (0)
- THE RELATION BETWEEN A NEGLECTED CLASS OF FACTS AND THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION. (1930) (0)
- The Selection Problem (1917) (0)
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