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William John Dakin

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In 1977 a $ 2000 bequest from his wife was granted to the University of Sydney in his memory. Known as the "William John Dakin Memorial Prize in Zoology", it is awarded annually to a Zoology student attaining first class honours in biology.
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who is remembered for the large number of his students who achieved prominence in the area of zoology and for the number of books and papers he wrote on many
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Whalemen Adventurers; the story of whaling in Australian waters and other southern seas related thereto, from the days of sail to modern times
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he attained his BSc with first class honours in Zoology in 1905, his MSc in 1907 and his
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in 1918, chaired the extension committee, twice visited the
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In 1912 Dakin applied and was appointed as the chair of
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in 1911 on osmotic pressure and the blood of fishes.
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Index

Toxteth
Turramurra
Scholia
William John Dakin (Q9374843)
zoologist
scientific
Toxteth
Liverpool
coal merchant
University of Liverpool
DSc
Biology
University of Western Australia
Houtman Abrolhos
Royal Society of Western Australia
University of Sydney
Walkabout
"Bright Sparcs – Biographical entry"
"Dakin, William John (1883–1950)"
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian National University
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7
ISSN
1833-7538
OCLC
70677943
"National Library of Australia Catalogue"

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