Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
1851–1914
Dutch zoologist. Studied at Leiden, 1872–5; doctorate, 1875. Assistant, Zoötomisch Laboratorium, 1874–81. Instructor in natural history, Leiden Gymnasium, 1878–88. Fisheries advisor to the government, 1888; director of the zoological station, Den Helder, 1890. First general secretary, International Council for Exploration of the Sea, 1902–8. Worked on Cirripedia; published reports on cirripedes for the Challenger expedition (1883) and the Saboga expedition (1907 and 1913). Discovered that organs identified by CD as olfactory were maxillary glands.
Sources
Biografisch woordenboek van Nederland
W. A. Newman 1993, p. 428
Bibliography
Biografisch woordenboek van Nederland. Under the direction of J. Charité. The Hague: Nijhoff. 1979.
Newman, William A. 1993. Darwin and cirripedology. History of Carcinology. Crustacean Issues 8: 349–434.
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