Wilfred Eade Agar (27 April 1882 – 14 July 1951) was an Anglo-Australianzoologist.[1][2]
Agar was born inWimbledon,England. He was educated atSedbergh School,Yorkshire, and atKing's College, Cambridge, where he read zoology.[3] He served atGallipoli inWorld War I.
In 1919, he accepted the chair of zoology at theUniversity of Melbourne; his notable projects concernedmarsupialchromosomes andinheritance in cattle. He successfully challenged theLamarckian findings ofWilliam McDougall relating to the inheritance of the effects of training in rats.
In 1938 Agar was elected president of the Eugenics Society of Victoria. He said "it was a disastrous state of affairs that size of families was usually in inverse ratio to intelligence."[4]
Agar was awarded theClarke Medal by theRoyal Society of New South Wales in 1944 and elected aForeign Member of the Royal Society.[5]
Agar Street in theCanberra suburb ofBruce was dedicated in his name.[6]
Agar was the author of the bookA Contribution to the Theory of the Living Organism (1943). The book was based on the system of Whitehead'sphilosophy of the organism and argued for a formpanpsychism.[7]
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