George Stuart Carter

Dr George Stuart Carter FRSE FLS FZS (1893-1969) was a leading British zoologist and zoological author.

Life

He was born on 15 September 1893, the son of Rev G C Carter and Hilda E Keane.[1]

He studied at Marlborough College and then was awarded a place at Cambridge University, where he continued also at postgraduate level, gaining a PhD in Zoology. His studies were interrupted by the First World War: he served in the 6th Leicestershire Regiment from 1914-1917 and then as a Sound Ranger in the Royal Engineers 1917 to 1919.

After the war he obtained a post at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples where he worked 1922 to 1923 before receiving a post as a lecturer in Zoology at Glasgow University. He stayed at Glasgow until 1930, then receiving a Fellowship from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, lecturing there from 1938 until retiral in 1960 .[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1925. He died in Cambridge on 2 December 1969.

Publications
  • A General Zoology of the Invertebrates (1940)
  • Animal Evolution (1951)
  • The Papyrus Swamps of Uganda (1955)[3]
  • A Hundred Year of Evolution (1957)[4]
  • Structure and Habitat in Vertebrate Evolution (1967)

References
  1. C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  2. C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  3. The Papyrus Swamps of Uganda. Heffer. 1956.
  4. "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1957". 1958.


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