{{short description|British zoologist and museum curator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =Dr. | name = Walter Edward Collinge | honorific_suffix ={{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} {{post-nominals|list=FES}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FLS}} | image = Walter E Collinge.jpg | image_size = | alt = Walter Collinge in a suit, sat a table covered with laboratory equipment | caption = Collinge at the Cooper Research Laboratory in 1909 | birth_name = | birth_date = 19 April 1867 | birth_place = Huddersfield, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|11|24|1867|04|19|df=y}} | death_place = York, England | death_cause = | occupation = Zoologist<br>Museum curator | awards = | alma_mater = University of St Andrews | thesis_year = | discipline = Zoology | sub_discipline = Isopoda<br>Ornithology | workplaces = {{plainlist| * University of St. Andrews * Birmingham University * Yorkshire Museum }} }} '''Walter Edward Collinge''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} {{post-nominals|list=FES}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FLS}} (19 April 1867&ndash;24 November 1947)<ref>From paper archive in the Yorkshire Museum</ref> was a British zoologist and museum curator.<ref name='Pyrah'>{{cite book |author1=Pyrah, B. |date=1988 |title=The History of the Yorkshire Museum and its Geological Collections |publisher=North Yorkshire County Council |pages=116–117}}</ref> He is notable for his academic work on terrestrial slugs and Isopoda and on economic biology.<ref name='IbisObit'>{{cite journal |title=Obituaries: Walter Edward Collinge, 1867–1947 |journal=Ibis |volume=90 |issue=3 |page=476 |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1948.tb01708.x |year=2008 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name='Obit1'/>

==Early life and education== Collinge was born in Huddersfield. He undertook his first degree at Leeds University before becoming a demonstrator in zoology at the University of St Andrews in 1891.<ref name='Obit1'>{{cite journal |title=Obituary- Walter Edward Collinge, 1867–1947 |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=28 |issue=1 |date=1949 |page=3}}</ref>

==Career== Collinge was a lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy at Birmingham University when it was founded in 1900.<ref name='Obit1' /> He was director of the Cooper Research Laboratory and edited the first volume of its journal in 1909.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Introduction |journal=Journal of the Cooper Research Laboratory |volume=1 |page=1909}}</ref> From 1915–1919 he returned to St. Andrew's as the Carnegie Research Fellow at the Gatty Marine Laboratory.<ref name='Obit1' /> He became Keeper of the Yorkshire Museum in March 1921 and stayed in this post until his retirement in March 1941.<ref name='Pyrah' /><ref name='Obit1' /><ref name= 'Obit2'>{{cite book |chapter=Obituary: Dr. Walter E Collinge, 1867–1947 |title=Annual Report and Transactions of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society |date=12 April 1948 |page=7|volume=1947–1948|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57803353}}</ref> During his tenure at the Yorkshire Museum, Collinge devoted much of his academic attention to the economic aspects of ornithology.<ref name='IbisObit' />

Collinge was a member of many learned societies. He was a member of the British Numismatic Society,<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1927_BNJ_19_14.pdf |title=List of Members |date=1927–1928 |journal=British Numismatic Journal |volume=19 |pages=309–323}}</ref> a 'foreign member' of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, joint secretary of the Association of Economic Biologists,<ref>{{cite book |author1=Collinge, W. E. |date=1913 |title=The Food of Some British Wild Birds: A Study in Economic Ornithology |publisher=Dulau & Co. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b73277;view=1up;seq=5}}</ref> and a member of the British Ornithologists' Union.<ref name='IbisObit' /> He was a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, the Linnean Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and had served as president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.<ref name='Obit1'/>

===Binominal authority=== Collinge identified several species as new to science,{{ref|a|Note 1}} including ''Arion flagellus'',<ref>{{GBIF|id=9003393 |taxon=''Arion flagellus'' |accessdate=22 June 2023}}</ref> ''Cryptosemelus gracilis'',<ref>{{cite GBIF |id=10092557 |taxon=''Cryptosemelus gracilis''|accessdate=22 June 2023}}</ref> and ''Microparmarion pollonerai''.<ref>{{cite GBIF |id=9117887 |taxon=''Microparmarion pollonerai'' ||accessdate=22 June 2023}}</ref>

Two species are named in honour of Collinge, ''Clanculus collingei'' and ''Streptaxis collingei''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.conchology.be/?t=9001&id=16054 |title=Shellers from the Past: Collinge, Walter Edward (Phd) |publisher=www.conchology.be |accessdate=22 June 2023}}</ref>

==Publications== *Collinge, W. E. 1893. "[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24344024#page/282/mode/1up Description of the anatomy &c. of a new species and variety of Arion]", ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (6) 12 (70). 252-254. *Collinge, W. E. 1896 [https://archive.org/details/skullofdogmanual00coll/page/n4 ''The Skull of the Dog: A Manual for Students with a Glossary of Osteological Terms'']. London. *Collinge, W. E. 1902. [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cgjr3h9h?query=%22Mollusc%22 "On the non-operculate land and fresh-water molluscs collected by the members of the "Skeat expedition" in the Malay Peninsula, 1899-1900"], ''Journal of Malacology'' 9(3). *Collinge, W. E. 1908. ''Report on the injurious insects and other animals observed in the Midland counties during 1904-07''. Birmingham, Cornish bros. *Collinge, W. E. 1912. [https://archive.org/details/reportoneconomic02collrich ''Second report on economic biology'']. Birmingham, The Midland Educational. *Collinge, W. E. 1913. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/67944#page/5/mode/1up ''The Food of some British Wild Birds: A Study in Economic Ornithology'']. London. *Collinge, W. E. 1915. "Description of a new Genus and Species of Terrestrial Isopoda from British Guiana", ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 32 (220), 509–511 {{doi|10.1111/j.1096-3642.1915.tb01872.x}} *Collinge, W. E. 1917. "[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34986060#page/93/mode/1up On the oral appendages of certain species of marine Isopoda]". ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology'', 34. 65–92. *Collinge, W. E. 1934. "[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/264123#page/74/mode/2up On a Roman Phalera Found near Malton]". ''Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (1934)''. 3–4. *Collinge, W. E. 1935. "[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/264115#page/68/mode/2up On Some Spoon-shaped Fibulae in the Yorkshire Museum and Elsewhere]". ''Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (1935)''. 1–4. *Collinge, W. E. 1935. "[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/264115#page/78/mode/2up On a Roman memorial stone in the Yorkshire Museum]. ''Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (1935)''. 5-6. *Collinge, W. E. 1935. "Woodlice, their Folk-Lore and Local Names", ''The North-Western Naturalist'' 10. 19–21.

==Note== :1.{{note|1}} A full list of the described species of molluscs by Collinge is [https://www.conchology.be/?t=9001&id=16054 here].

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