November, 1999 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No.7 
Upon graduation, Arthur took a teaching 
position with the Department of Biology at the 
University of Buffalo in the upstate New York. 
However, with the outbreak of the World War 
II, he was drafted in 1942 to serve in the 
United States Navy and worked at its medical 
unit in charge of malaria control. There he had 
an opportunity to apply his knowledge of 
parasitology during his military service as a 
Lieutenant Commander stationed in the South 
Pacific. Toward the end of World War II in 
1945, with the northward movement of the 
frontlines from the South Pacific to Saipan, 
Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, the military life in 
Kalimantan (Borneo) became relatively 
relaxed. Thus, Arthur found a little time to 
resume his life-long hobby of beach combing 
for invertebrates, and was able to collect 
copepods associated with crabs and mud 
shrimps at Tarakan on the northeast coast of 
Kalimantan, Indonesia. This collecting 
experience in Indonesia further stimulated 
Arthur’s interest in copepods, and throughout 
his life he made frequent trips to the tropics to 
collect symbiotic copepods. 
Arthur received his honorable discharge from 
the U.S.N.R. in 1946 and returned to the U. S. 
to teach at University of Connecticut for a year 
before taking a teaching position in 1947 at 
Boston University. He was affiliated with this 
institution till his retirement in 1981. In 1970 
Arthur was asked to become Director of the 
Boston University Marine Program, newly 
established at the Marine Biological 
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the 
center of marine biology of North America. 
Accepting the position would require Arthur to 
move from Boston, and to assume 
administrative responsibility with which he 
was not especially comfortable. He did accept 
the directorship and made the Boston 
University Marine Program one of the finest 
marine programs in the world. In 1981, Arthur 
retired from the program, but continued work 
at the Marine Biological Laboratory. He soon 
agreed to a different set of responsibilities for 
the newly established The Crustacean Society, 
as editor of the Journal of Crustacean Biology. 
He produced the first issue of the journal in 
1981. Under his guidance it has become the 
leading international journal of crustacean 
research with exacting standards of quality for 
published manuscripts. He was to retire from 
the editorship at the end of 1999. Knowing his 
firm intent to retire, The Crustacean Society 
secretly planned in 1998 to publish a special 
issue of the Journal in 2000 to honor Arthur’s 
great service and contribution to the Society. 
In June 1954, Arthur took his first sabbatical 
leave, supported by a fellowship from the John 
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He 
traveled to the French-speaking West African 
countries of Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory 
Coast, Nigeria, and Congo where he collected 
copepods associated with various marine 
invertebrates. Before returning to Boston in 
June 1955, Arthur made a decision of 
significance to his research career. With the 
remaining funds from his fellowship he 
decided to fly across Africa to Station 
Oceanographique de Nosy Be on a tiny island 
off the northeastern shore of Madagascar, the 
large island off the east coast of Africa. At 
Nosy Be he found a great diversity of marine 
invertebrates and their symbiotic copepods. So 
rewarding were his collecting efforts that he 
returned to Nosy Be three times in the 60’s to 
collect copepods: in 1960 during an expedition 
sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia; in 1963-64 as a leader of the 
U. S. Program of Biology under the auspice of 
the International Indian Ocean Expedition; and 
in 1967 through a grant from the U. S. National 
Science Foundation. In 1993 Arthur published 
a catalogue containing 244 species of copepods 
that he had described and collected from Nosy 
Be. But, that is not all, he had not yet touched 
on the many collections of notodelphyids and 
ascidicolids that were obtained from the 
tunicates. His collecting effort was not 
confined to Nosy Be, Madagascar. With 
continuous support from the U. S. National 
Science Foundation, he went to collect in 1969 
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