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Raymond Robert Forster, (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000), was an arachnologist and museum director from New Zealand. ==Biography== Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educated at Victoria University of Wellington, gaining BSc, MSc(Hons) and DSc degrees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World-rated zoologist classified many native NZ spiders )〕 Forster was an entomologist at the National Museum in Wellington from 1940 to 1947, with an interruption for military service during World War II.〔 Between 1942 and 1945 he served first in the army and then as a naval radar mechanic.〔(Ray Forster obituary ). International Society of Arachnology. Retrieved 14 February 2013.〕 He was appointed zoologist and assistant director at Canterbury Museum in 1948, and in 1957 he moved to Otago Museum to take up the position of director. He retired from that role in 1987.〔 Forster wrote his first paper on spiders at the age of 17. Over the course of his career, more than 100 scientific papers and volumes were published bearing his name, including the definitive six-volume ''Spiders of New Zealand'', in co-authorship with international colleagues. He also published ''Small Land Animals'' and co-authored ''NZ Spiders, An Introduction''.〔 He researched and classified many of New Zealand's thousands of native spiders, and was responsible for establishing Otago Museum's spider collection.〔 Forster died in Dunedin in 2000.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raymond Robert Forster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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