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GUY COLBORN ROBSON, whose death occurred on May 17, 1945, after a long illness, was born at South Woodford, Essex, on February 11, 1888. He obtained a Classical Scholarship at New College, Oxford, where he entered into residence in 1906. He took Classical Moderations, and then changed over to science, reading for honours in zoology, in which he obtained a first class, and afterwards spent a year in Naples, where he studied the fat-metabolism of crabs infested with Sacculina. He joined the staff of the British Museum Natural History in 1913 and was put to work on the Mollusca under Edgar Smith. He became a well-known authority on this group and devoted much attention to their anatomy, as well as the 'conchology' on which earlier classifications were mainly based. He published, numerous papers, mainly on the Cephalopoda, including perhaps his most important work, a monograph on the Octopoda, published by the British Museum in two volumes (1929 and 1932). He also studied the biology of Paludestrina jenkinsi, a parthenogenetic freshwater snail introduced into Britain some time during the eighties of last century, and now widely distributed throughout Britain.
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HINDLE, E. Dr. G. C. Robson. Nature 156, 75 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156075a0
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