# Walter Edward Collinge > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Walter_Edward_Collinge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Walter_Edward_Collinge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Edward_Collinge > Source revision: 1325462969 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Royal_Entomological_Society)}} {{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](/source/Huddersfield), England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|11|24|1867|04|19|df=y}} | death_place = [York](/source/York), England | death_cause = | occupation = Zoologist
Museum curator | awards = | alma_mater = [University of St Andrews](/source/University_of_St_Andrews) | thesis_year = | discipline = [Zoology](/source/Zoology) | sub_discipline = [Isopoda](/source/Isopoda)
[Ornithology](/source/Ornithology) | workplaces = {{plainlist| * University of St. Andrews * Birmingham University * Yorkshire Museum }} }} '''Walter Edward Collinge''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} {{post-nominals|list=[FES](/source/Royal_Entomological_Society)}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FLS}} (19 April 1867–24 November 1947)From paper archive in the Yorkshire Museum was a British zoologist and museum curator.{{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}} He is notable for his academic work on terrestrial slugs and [Isopoda](/source/Isopoda) and on economic biology.{{cite journal |title=Obituaries: Walter Edward Collinge, 1867–1947 |journal=[Ibis](/source/Ibis_(journal)) |volume=90 |issue=3 |page=476 |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1948.tb01708.x |year=2008 |doi-access=free }} ==Early life and education== Collinge was born in Huddersfield. He undertook his first degree at [Leeds University](/source/Leeds_University) before becoming a demonstrator in zoology at the [University of St Andrews](/source/University_of_St_Andrews) in 1891.{{cite journal |title=Obituary- Walter Edward Collinge, 1867–1947 |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=28 |issue=1 |date=1949 |page=3}} ==Career== Collinge was a lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy at [Birmingham University](/source/Birmingham_University) when it was founded in 1900. He was director of the Cooper Research Laboratory and edited the first volume of its journal in 1909.{{cite journal |title=Introduction |journal=Journal of the Cooper Research Laboratory |volume=1 |page=1909}} From 1915–1919 he returned to St. Andrew's as the Carnegie Research Fellow at the [Gatty Marine Laboratory](/source/Gatty_Marine_Laboratory). He became Keeper of the [Yorkshire Museum](/source/Yorkshire_Museum) in March 1921 and stayed in this post until his retirement in March 1941.{{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}} During his tenure at the Yorkshire Museum, Collinge devoted much of his academic attention to the economic aspects of ornithology. Collinge was a member of many learned societies. He was a member of the [British Numismatic Society](/source/British_Numismatic_Society),{{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}} a 'foreign member' of the [American Association of Economic Entomologists](/source/American_Association_of_Economic_Entomologists), Honorary Fellow of the [Royal Horticultural Society](/source/Royal_Horticultural_Society), joint secretary of the [Association of Economic Biologists](/source/Association_of_Economic_Biologists),{{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}} and a member of the [British Ornithologists' Union](/source/British_Ornithologists'_Union). He was a fellow of the [Royal Entomological Society](/source/Royal_Entomological_Society), the [Linnean Society](/source/Linnean_Society) and the [Society of Antiquaries of London](/source/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London), and had served as president of the [Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland](/source/Conchological_Society_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland). ===Binominal authority=== Collinge identified several species as new to science,{{ref|a|Note 1}} including ''[Arion flagellus](/source/Arion_flagellus)'',{{GBIF|id=9003393 |taxon=''Arion flagellus'' |accessdate=22 June 2023}} ''[Cryptosemelus gracilis](/source/Cryptosemelus_gracilis)'',{{cite GBIF |id=10092557 |taxon=''Cryptosemelus gracilis''|accessdate=22 June 2023}} and ''[Microparmarion pollonerai](/source/Microparmarion_pollonerai)''.{{cite GBIF |id=9117887 |taxon=''Microparmarion pollonerai'' ||accessdate=22 June 2023}} Two species are named in honour of Collinge, ''[Clanculus collingei](/source/Clanculus_collingei)'' and ''[Streptaxis collingei](/source/Streptaxis_collingei)''.{{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}} ==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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Collinge, Walter Edward}} Category:1867 births Category:British zoologists Category:British curators Category:1947 deaths Category:People from Huddersfield Category:Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Category:British ornithologists Category:Yorkshire Museum people Category:Alumni of the University of Leeds Category:Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society Category:Scientists from West Yorkshire Category:British malacologists Category:Alumni of the University of St Andrews --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Walter Edward Collinge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Edward_Collinge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Edward_Collinge?action=history)). 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