but fell through because of the outbreak of the First World War, during which he served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and was mentioned in dispatches for his war work. Wollaston took part (as doctor, ornithologist and botanist) in the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest. It was in the course of this expedition that he discovered a new Primula, a flower which was subsequently named after him as Wollaston's primrose, Primula wollastonii. In 1923 Wollaston married Mary "Polly" Meinertzhagen, the sister of Richard Meinertzhagen, with whom he had three children. He was elected to a Fellowship in the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) in 1907, and received the Gill Memorial in 1914, followed by the society's Patron's Medal in 1925 for his expeditions into Africa and New Guinea. He was appointed honorary secretary of the RGS in 1928. Wollaston was invited by John Maynard Keynes to be a tutor at the University of Cambridge. He was killed in 1930 in his rooms at King's College by a student, D. N. Potts, who fatally shot Wollaston and a police officer before shooting himself in a triple murder–suicide. Bibliography Books authored by Wollaston include: 1908 – From Ruwenzori to the Congo: a Naturalist's Journey Across Africa. John Murray: London. 1912 – Pygmies and Papuans: the Stone Age to-day in Dutch New Guinea. Smith, Elder & Co: London. 1921 – Life of Alfred Newton, Professor of Comparative Anatomy Cambridge University, 1866–1907. John Murray: London. References Further reading Ballard, Chris; Vink, Steven; & Ploeg, Anton. (2001). Race to the Snow: Photography and the Exploration of Dutch New Guinea, 1907–1936. Royal Tropical Institute: Amsterdam. Wollaston, Mary. (2013). Letters and Diaries of A.F.R. Wollaston. Cambridge University Press. – new paperback edition of original out-of-print 1933 hardback Wollaston, Nicholas. (2003). My Father, Sandy. Short Books. External links 1875 births 1930 deaths Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Deaths by firearm in England English explorers English mountain climbers English murder victims English ornithologists Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Male murder victims People educated at Clifton College People murdered in England Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom) Royal Navy officers of World War I