Launcelot Harrison

Launcelot Harrison (13 July 1880 - 20 February 1928) was an Australian zoologist and entomologist who held the Challis Chair in Zoology from 1922 until his untimely death from a cerebral haemorrhage.[1][2] He married writer Amy Mack on 29 February 1908.[3] His 1915 study found that host and parasite body sizes tended to positively co-vary; this finding was dubbed Harrison's rule.[4] During World War I he served as an advising entomologist (ranked Lieutenant) to the British Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia.[5] His students included Claire Weekes, the first woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Sydney.

References
  1. Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. "Harrison, Launcelot - Person - Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  2. "PROFESSOR HARRISON". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 February 1928. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  3. Phelan, Nancy. "Mack, Amy Eleanor (1876–1939)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  4. Harrison, Launcelot (1915). "Mallophaga from Apteryx, and their significance; with a note on the genus Rallicola" (PDF). Parasitology. 8: 88–100. doi:10.1017/S0031182000010428. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  5. "Launcelot Harrison | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
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