George Philip Farran

George Philip Farran (1876,Dublin-1949, Dublin) was an Irish zoologist.

Farran, who graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1899 initially worked in the National Museum and in the Royal Dublin Society's Fishery Survey. He was appointed Assistant Naturalist with the Department of Agriculture & Technical Instruction Fisheries Branch in 1901, and became an Inspector in 1909 and in 1938 Chief Inspector. He was an expert on Copepoda.

Works

• Farran, G.P. 1905. Report on the opisthobranchiate Mollusca collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. pp. 329–364 in: Report to the government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar 3, Suppl. Rept. No. 21 (W.A. Herdman, ed.). Royal Society, London.
• Farran, G.P. 1908. Second report on the Copepoda of the Irish Atlantic slope. Rep. Sea inland fish. Irel. Sci. Invest. 1906. Pt. (1908): 19-120.
• Farran, G.P. 1913. The deep-water Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea and Echinoidea of the West Coast of Ireland. Department of Agriculture and technical instruction for Ireland, fisheries branch, scientific investigations 1912, 6, 1-66.
• Farran, G.P. 1926. Biscayan plankton collected during a cruise of H.M.S. “Research”, 1900. Pt. 14. The Copepoda. J. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. 36: 219-310.
• Farran, G.P. 1929. Crustacea. Pt. 10. Copepoda [Brit. Antarctic (Terra Nova) Exped., Zool. 1910]. Nat. Hist. Rep. Zool. 8(3): 203-306.
• See also Irish Natural History Literature Database

References

• Bemon

External links

• EOL Encyclopedia of Life Taxa described by George Philip Farran. Type Farran into the search box