Edward Waller (zoologist)

Edward Waller (1803–1873) was an Irish zoologist.

Waller was a land owner and barrister from Co. Tipperary.He owned Finnoe House, Borrisokane, a summer home in Co. Tyrone and the yacht used by the Belfast Dredging Committee of which he was a member (other members were George Crawford Hyndman, George Dickie and John Gwyn Jeffreys). He was interested in Mollusca and Foraminifera 1867-68 and is honoured in the name Aclis walleri so named by Jeffreys in 1867.

Works

• Waller, Edward 1867 Report on the Foraminifera obtained in the Shetland Seas. Report Brit. Assoc.(Dundee, 1867), 1867, pp. 44 1 -446. London.
• Waller, Edward 1868 Report on the Shetland Foraminifera for 1868. Report Brit. Assoc. (Norwich, 1868), 1868, pp. 340, 341. London.