Tillyard, Robin John

 Person: id 90092
University connections
USyd
Event flag
World War I
Family name
Tillyard
Given name(s)
Robin John
Initials
R.J.
Gender
Male
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
Not listed in the Book of Remembrance. Contributed to the war through scientific research, National Archives of Australia service record series MT1486/1
Publications
Insects of NZ and Australia, Sydney 1926, The Biology of Dragonflies, Cambridge 1917,
Published on dragonflies mayflies, stoneflies of Qld and NSW, over 200 publications
Visible notes
Tillyard specialised in the phylogeny and classification of freshwater insects such as caddisflies, dragonflies, mayflies and stoneflies. Published many studies. Tillyard spent his entire entomological career living in New Zealand and Australia, and most of his work on the Elmo fossils was done with specimens collected by the Yale Peabody Museum and shipped to him in New Zealand. But he also took a number of trips to London and Europe, travelling by steamship to the west coast of the United States, then across the country by rail, and by steamship again from the east coast of the U.S.A. to London, then back by the same route.[https://doi.org/10.2317/0022-8567-85.4.353]
Internal notes
NAA war service record not digitised at November 2019 series MT1486/1
ADB Entry ID
8817
 
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