| AdminHistory | William James Rees (1913-1967) was educated at St David's College School, Lampeter, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He worked on hydroids and their medusae at the Marine Biological Association laboratory in Plymouth from 1936 to 1940, and with RAF intelligence during the War. He joined the Mollusca Section of the Museum in 1946, and transferred to Coelenterates on Totton's retirement in 1953. His first project, which was never published in full, was a monographic study of the gymnoblastic hydroids of the British Isles. He developed a new, unified, classification of hydroids and medusae, and worked on a general revision of British hydroid genera. He also studied the hydroids of Scandinavia, Singapore, the Azores, Zanzibar, the Bay of Naples and elsewhere, and paid a number of visits to Norway, Sweden, Naples, Villefranche and Miami. He died suddenly in October 1967.
A biographical note on Totton is given in the description of class DF5009.
References:
W J Rees - list of published works. An unpublished typescript in the Mollusca Section tract collection. |