Henry Paul William Lyster Jameson (1875, Louth – 26 February 1922, West Mersea) was a zoologist, who studied pearl-formation.
[4] After a year at the Royal College of Science in London, Jameson studied zoology under Otto Bütschli at the University of Heidelberg, writing his dissertation (1898) on Thalassema neptuni, a species of spoon worms.
Put in charge of a pearling station in British New Guinea, he studied the causes of pearl-formation.
[5] He worked for the Natal Education Department and later was professor of Biology the Transvaal Technical Institute in Johannesburg.
[1] However when the Institute – renamed the Transvaal University College – was reorganised in 1908, Jameson's post was abolished and he returned to England.