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British marine biologist
Allen in 1930
Edgar Johnson Allen
CBE
FRS
[1]
(6 April 1866 ? 7 December 1942) was a British
marine biologist
. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society
in 1914
[1]
and won the
Gold Medal of the Linnean Society
in 1926 and the Royal Society's
Darwin Medal
in 1936.
[2]
[3]
Allen was the fifth Director of the
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
in Plymouth, serving from 1894 to 1936. The citation for his
Darwin Medal
reads
In recognition of his long continued work for the advancement of marine biology, not only by his own researches but by the great influence he has exerted on very numerous investigations at Plymouth
.
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