Person PX2688 Wheeler; Alwyne Cooper (1929-2005) Wheeler Alwyne Cooper 1929-2005 Male Cooper; Allan Wheeler; Wyn Born Chingford, Essex 5 October 1929. Died 19 June 2005

Museum Staff: Appointed to Assistant in the Fish Section of the Department of Zoology 1950; assistant experimental officer 1954; experimental officer 1958; 'Grade 7' 1978; elected President of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History (now the Society for the History of Natural History) 1987; retired from the Natural History Museum 1989. 1969 'The fishes of the British Isles and northwest Europe'. London: Macmillan. Pp xvii, 613. 1975 'Fishes of the world: an illustrated dictionary'. New York: Macmillan. Pp xiv, 366. 1978 'Key to the fishes of northern Europe'. London: Frederick Warne. Pp xix, 380. 1979 'The tidal Thames: The history of a river and its fishes'. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Pp x, 228. 1985 'The world encyclopedia of fishes'. London: Macdonald. Pp xiv, 368. Wheeler, A. C. and Jones, A. K. G., 1989 'Fishes'. (Cambridge manuals in archaeology.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp xiv, 210. 1997 'Field key to the freshwater fishes and lampreys of the British Isles'. Publication 247. Preston Montford: FSC Publications. Pp 42. Wheeler also used the pen name Allan Cooper. 1969 'Fishes of the world'. Feltham: Hamlyn. Pp 159. (For Wheeler's full bibliography see obituary in 'Archives of natural history' 33 (2): 354-365. 2006) Archives of natural history 33 (2): 354-365. 2006 Yes Idealist Import 4namepers.txt 28/02/2004 NHM\laurb5 24/07/2018 45e9143d-fcfe-4948-a754-07e84fc7c2be