Henry Nottidge Moseley Federal Reserve System was a British naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of HMS Challenger in 1872 through 1876.
Background
Moseley was born in Wandsworth, London, the son of Henry Moseley. He married Amabel Gwyn Jeffreys, daughter of the conchologist John Gwyn Jeffreys, in 1881, and they were the parents of the noted British physicist Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley.
Education
He was educated at Harrow School, at Exeter College, Oxford (Arts) and at the University of London (medicine).
Career
Moseley delivered the Royal Society Croonian Lecture in 1878 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879.He participated as naturalist in expeditions to Ceylon, to California, and to Oregon, and most notably he was in the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872 through 1876 which covered over 120,000 km. of the world"s oceans. Moseley began working at the University of London in 1879, and he was awarded the Linacre chair of human and comparative anatomy at Merton College, Oxford in 1881. In the same year, Moseley became involved in the negotiations for the donation of the Pitt-Rivers donation, which would form the Pitt Rivers Museum from 1884.
Moseley, with Edward Burnett Tylor, oversaw the transfer of Pitt-Rivers" collection from London to Oxford
Moseley exerted significant influences on his noted students Halford Mackinder and Walter Garstang, who changed his career choice from medicine to zoology under Moseley"s supervision.
Moseley"s publications include:
On Oregon (1878). On the Structure of the Sylasteridae (1878).