influence of Garstang, Gurney rejected Ernst Haeckel's biogenetic law (that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"), preferring Garstang's concept of paedomorphosis as an explanation for the similarities between copepods and decapod larvae. Gurney was, however, very tentative in his speculations. Expeditions Gurney took part in several expeditions, including one to North Africa in 1906, and the Cambridge University Suez Expedition in 1924. He also worked on material collected by other expeditions, including the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), the Discovery Investigations (1920s and 1930s) and the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928–1929. Gurney returned to the Red Sea, visiting the marine laboratory at Hurghada in 1936, and visited Bermuda twice: once with Walter Garstang in 1935, and once with both Garstang and Marie V. Lebour in 1938. Honours A number of organisms are named in honour of Robert Gurney: Robertgurneya Lang, 1948 (Copepoda: Diosaccidae) Tisbe gurneyi (Lang, 1934) (Copepoda: Tisbidae) Leptocaris gurneyi (Nicholls, 1944) (Copepoda: Darcythompsoniidae) Harpacticus gurneyi Jakubisiak, 1933 (Copepoda Harpactidae) Kelleria gurneyi Sewell, 1949 (Copepoda: Kelleriidae) Diarthrodes gurneyi Lang, 1948 (Copepoda: Thalestridae) Nikoides gurneyi Hayashi, 1975 (Decapoda: Processidae) Saccoglossus guerneyi (Robinson, 1927) (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta) Further reading References 1879 births 1950 deaths 20th-century British zoologists British carcinologists People educated at Eton College Alumni of New College, Oxford People from Sprowston People from North Norfolk (district) People from Vale of White Horse (district) Robert