Alan Mozley

Prof Walter Alan Mozley FRSE (1904-1971) was a British zoologist who came to international repute in relation to his knowledge of frershwater snails, water insects and mollusca, and to their impact upon tropical disease.

Life

He was born on 20 June 1904 in Chingford in Essex.

He studied Zoology at the University of Manitoba graduating BSc then obtained a post in the Smithsonian Institute 1931-34. He was awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon Travelling Scholarship by the Smithsonian andiIn 1934 he returned to Britain to join the Zoology Department of Edinburgh University. Here he gained two doctorates (DSc and PhD).

In 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Hartley Ashworth, Charles Henry O'Donoghue, Alfred Ernest Cameron and Arthur Lancelot Craig-Bennett.

He gained his first professorship as Professor of Zoology at the Training College in Bagdhad in Iraq after the Second World War. He also received a Fellowship from John Hopkins University. His final working years were spent at Schenectady College in New York.

He died on 16 August 1971 at Lynden, Washington. He is buried in Greenacres Memorial Park in Washington.

Publications

• New Freshwater Molluscs from Northern Asia (1934)
• Statistical Analysis of Distribution of Pond Mulluscs (1936)
• Freshwater Mollusca of Tanganyika Territory and Zanzibar (1940)
• An Introduction to Molluscan Ecology (1954)