Joseph Reay Greene [SEP] date of death
Joseph Reay Greene
Joseph Reay Greene (1836-1903) was an Irish zoologist.
Between 1858 and 1877 Reay Greene was Professor of Natural History in Queen's College, Cork. He was one of the Editors of the "Natural History Review". He was a specialist in Hydrozoa.
Joseph Reay Greene is not to be confused with the Irish entomologist Joseph Greene
Works.
Partial list
- 1857. On the Acalephae of Dublin coast, with description of seven new nakedeyed forms. "Natural History
His principal research was in marine zoology however and at the Leeds meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1858, he, with Joseph Reay Greene, gave a report on the marine fauna of the south and west coasts of Ireland. He was one of the earliest workers in deep water dredging at (800–900 m) at Setubal Bay, Portugal. He also described a species of copepod "Pennella" in 1870, published on Irish sponges in 1869 and on algae. The alga "Cocconeopsis wrightii"