Edward Waller (zoologist)

The son of Thomas Maunsell Waller and Margaret Vereker, Waller was born in Finnoe, County Tipperary. He was a landowner and barrister from County Tipperary. He owned Finnoe House, Borrisokane, a summer home in County 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. His younger brother was John Francis Waller (1809-1894) ==Family==

Edward married Mary Crossle on 3 August 1829 at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone. Mary was the only daughter of Henry Crossle of Avaline House in County Tyrone. ==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. ==References==