Arthur Shipley, English Zoologist
Arthur Everett Shipley (March 10, 1861 - September 22, 1927) was an English zoologist. He specialized in the study of parasitic worms, publishing nearly fifty papers on them and leading to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904. In 1893 he published The Zoology of the Invertebrata, which became a popular university textbook. Between 1895 and 1909 he co-edited, with Sidney Harmer, the ten-volume Cambridge Natural History. He was co-editor, with George Nuttall, of the journal Parasitology from 1908 to 1914, and also assisted in editing the Journal of Economic Biology from 1905 to 1913. In 1918, Shipley was a member of the British University Mission to the United States, sent by the Foreign Office to counteract German propaganda in American universities and to promote postgraduate study by American students at British universities. Shipley was knighted as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1920. He died in 1927 at the age of 66
