Cyril Crossland

Cyril Crossland (April 19, 1878, Sheffield, England – January 7, 1943, Hellerup, Gentofte municipality, Denmark) was an English zoologist. He worked as an assistant to Charles Eliot. He studied several groups of marine animals, especially the Protozoa, Corals and Molluscs. Crossland took a position at the Denmark Zoological Museum in 1938. Tim Flannery writes In his book "Europe A Natural History" " ... Prior to his (Crossland) death in 1943 he was seen riding the Copenhagen trams, roundly abusing the Nazis in a cultivated English accent. "