Eric Oswald Gale Scott (18 October 1899 – 24 June 1986) was an Australian teacher, museum director, ichthyologist and pacifist.
Eric Scott taught courses on biology and English poetry for the Workers’ Educational Association.
"Observations on some Tasmanian fishes" was published in the Royal Society of Tasmania Papers and Proceedings.
[1] Following his return to Launceston he was appointed as director of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in November 1938.
[1] He focused his attention to ichthyology for over 50 years, being the author of in excess of 50 published research papers and other works.
[1] In 1965 he was appointed as an honorary associate in ichthyology at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, re-formalising the links he had kept with that institution.
[4] Scott had another brush with the law in 1971 when, with his wife Freda, refused to take a compulsory chest X-ray mandated by the Tuberculosis Act.