Arthur Willey

Arthur Willey FRS (9 October 1867, Scarborough, North Yorkshire – 26 December 1942) was a British-Canadian zoologist.

During the long vacation of 1889 and again in the following year he proceeded to Messina at the instance of Lankester and there carried out the investigations of Amphioxus which formed the subject matter of his first published papers.

[2]After returning from the Marine Station (Stazione Zoologica), Naples, he became a fellow at University College London.

From 1894 to 1899 he held the Balfour Studentship of Cambridge, during which he went to the East Indies to investigate the embryology of the pearly nautilus.

In 1902 in Hendon, Middlesex, he married Emily Constance Bowd, and after his retirement in 1932 they lived in a cottage about an hour's drive from Montreal.