Richard Norris Wolfenden

Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854–1926) was an English physician and oceanographer.

Life Wolfenden was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. He practised as a London physician, and lectured in physiology at the Charing Cross Hospital medical school. Together with George Herbert Fowler, Wolfenden founded the Challenger Society for Marine Science in 1903.

Works 1884 – Histological notes for the course of practical histologoy at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School (pdf) 1886 – On infantile cerebral paralysis 1888 – Studies in pathological anatomy, especially in relation to laryngeal neoplasms 1902 – The plankton of the Faröe Channel and Shetlands. Preliminary Notes on some Radiolaria and Copepoda. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom n. ser. 6: 344–372 (BHL) 1903 – Copepoda. In: Fowler, G.H.; Contribution to our knowledge of the plankton of the Faeroe Channel. No. VIII. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903(1): 122–126 (BHL) 1903 – On the Copepod Sub-family Aetidiinae, with a proposed Revision of the Classification. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 72: 263–267 (BHL) 1904 – Notes on the Copepoda of the North Atlantic Sea and the Faröe Channel. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom n. ser. 7: 110–146 (BHL) 1905 – Biscayan Plankton. Part VI. - The Colloid Radiolaria. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology ser. 2, 10: 131–136 (BHL) 1905 – Plankton Studies: preliminary notes upon new or interesting species Part I. Copepoda: 1–24 (pdf) 1906 – Notes on the collection of Copepoda. In: Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes suppl. 1: 989–1040 (pdf) 1906 – Plankton Studies: preliminary notes upon new or interesting species. Part II. Copepoda: 25–44 (pdf) 1908 – Crustacea. VIII. Copepoda. British National Antarctic Expedition 1901–1904, Natural History, Zoology 4: 1–46 (BHL) 1909 – Scientific and biological researches in the North Atlantic: conducted by the author on his yachts 'The Walwin' and 'The Silver Belle'. Memoirs of the Challenger Society 1: 1–234 (BHL) 1911 – Die marinen Copepoden der Deutschen Südpolar Expedition 1901–1903. II. Die pelagischen Copepoden der Westwinddrift und des südlichen Eismeers mit Beschreibung mehrerer neuer Arten aus dem Atlantischen Ozean. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903 12 (Zoologie 4) Heft 4: 181–380 (BHL)