| Activity | working on fishes, crustaceans, particularly amphipods and molluscs, especially nudibranchs. He was educated in Cambridge (after studies in Mannheim, Germany) and later in London (where he studied law and became a Barrister-at-Law in 1911). However, natural science interested him more than law and after a short sojourn at the Plymouth Laboratory, he joined the staff at the South African Museum in 1911. He was director of the museum from 1946-1956, when he retired.
Published about 230 papers and books on South African fishes, insects, and crustaceans (amphipods, isopods, decapods, stomatopods, copepods and cirripedes). Did pioneering work on isolated mountain peak faunas of the South West Cape ranges.
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