Memories of D. (Don) H.D. Edward 1933-2018

Abstract

My friend and colleague Donald Herbert Deshon Edward died in June 2018 at the age of 85 following a decline in health in the previous months. Thus ended a long career entirely based at the University of Western Australia on the banks of the Swan River in Perth. Don Edward was a versatile aquatic biologist who had a particular affection for the stranger life histories amongst the many chironomids that surrounded him in the south-west of Western Australia. Although quiet on the publication front in his later years (Fig. 2E), he continued to sort samples from projects, including many in Western Australia and from Papua New