Vero Copner. c.B.E. Master of Arts D. South Carolina. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh WYNNE-EDWARDS
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Vero Copner. c.B.E. Master of Arts D. South Carolina. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh WYNNE-EDWARDS, British zoologist. Royal Commission, on Environmental Pollution 1970-1974; Societas Scientiarum, Finland.
Background
WYNNE-EDWARDS, Vero Copner. c.B.E. Master of Arts D. South Carolina. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh was born on July 4, 1906 in Leeds, Yorkshire.
Son of Reverend Canon J. R. Wynne-Edwards and Lilian Streatfeild.
Education
Leeds Grammar School, Rugby School and New College, Oxford.
Career
Assistant Lecturer Bristol University 1929-1930. Assistant Professor Zoology McGill University Montreal 1930-1944, Association Professor 1944-1946. Regius Professor, of Natural History Aberdeen University 1946-1974.
Visiting Professor, of Conservation University of Louisville, Kentucky 1959.
Commonwealth Interchange Fellow, New Zealand 1962. President British Ornithologists’ Union 1965-1970, Scottish Marine Biological Association 1967-1973.
Chairman National Environmental Research Council 1968-1971.
Membership
Royal Commission, on Environmental Pollution 1970-1974. Societas Scientiarum, Finland.