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English zoologist (1872?1959)
Francis Cole
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Born
| Francis Joseph Cole
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1872-02-03
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3 February 1872
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Died
| 27 January 1959
(1959-01-27)
(aged 86)
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Nationality
| English
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Alma mater
| University of Oxford
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Known for
| Founded
Cole Museum of Zoology
and Cole Library
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Awards
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- FRS
(1926)
[1]
- Rolleston Prize
- Neill Gold Medal
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Scientific career
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Fields
| Zoology
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Francis Joseph Cole
FRS
[1]
(3 February 1872 – 27 January 1959) was an English
zoologist
and a professor at the
University of Reading
for 33 years.
Education
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Cole was born in London and educated at
Sir Walter St. John's School
,
Battersea
and
Jesus College, Oxford
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Career
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Cole was a lecturer in
zoology
at the
University of Liverpool
from 1897 until 1906, when he became Professor of Zoology at the
University of Reading
, the first holder of the post. He then began setting up the
Cole Museum of Zoology
, encouraging overseas visitors to the Department to donate specimens. He remained at Reading, until retiring in 1939, but carried on writing in retirement. He wrote in particular on comparative anatomy and the history of zoology, after his early work on the morphology of fish. His works included a "History of Protozoology" (1926), "Early Theories of Sexual Generation" (1930) and a "History of Comparative Anatomy from Aristotle to the Eighteenth Century" (1944).
He retired from Reading in 1939 being replaced by Prof
Charles Henry O'Donoghue
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[2]
Awards and honours
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Cole was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1926
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[1]
and won the Neill Gold Medal of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
in 1908.
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He was the 1950
Wilkins Lecturer
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