Launcelot Harrison (13 July 1880 – 20 February 1928) was an Australian zoologist, entomologist and NSW rugby union player who held the Challis Chair in Zoology from 1922 until his untimely death from a cerebral haemorrhage.123 He married writer Amy Mack on 29 February 1908.4 His 1915 study found that host and parasite body sizes tended to positively co-vary; this finding was dubbed Harrison's rule.5
During World War I he served as an advising entomologist (ranked Lieutenant) to the British Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia.6
His students included Claire Weekes, the first woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Sydney.
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- Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. "Harrison, Launcelot – Person – Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
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- Phelan, Nancy. "Mack, Amy Eleanor (1876–1939)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- Harrison, Launcelot (1915). "Mallophaga from Apteryx, and their significance; with a note on the genus Rallicola" (PDF). Parasitology. 8: 88–100. doi:10.1017/S0031182000010428. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
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