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A vendor in Tanzania with a variety of large seashells for sale. The terms shell collector and conchologist can be regarded as two distinct categories. Not all shell collectors are conchologists; some are primarily concerned with the aesthetic value of shells instead of their scientific study. It is also true that not all conchologists are ...
The Registry of World Record Size Shells is a conchological work listing the largest (and in some cases smallest) verified shell specimens of various marine molluscan taxa.A successor to the earlier World Size Records of Robert J. L. Wagner and R. Tucker Abbott, it has been published on a semi-regular basis since 1997, changing ownership and publisher a number of times.
Abbott was one of the most prominent conchologists of the 20th century. He brought the study of seashells to the public with his works, including most notably: American Seashells (1954), Seashells of the World (1962), The Shell (1972), and The Kingdom of the Seashell (1972). He was an active member of the American Malacological Union and ...
Writer, dance educator, conchologist Kathleen Yerger Johnstone (August 19, 1906 – June 19, 1996) was an American nature writer, dance educator, and "Alabama's most famous conchologist ". [ 1 ] Alabama's state seashell, Johnstone's junonia , is named in her honor.
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Harry G. Lee was an American shell collector and physician. Over the course of his life, Lee named 36 species of Mollusca and has had 18 others named for him. [1] [2] He was considered one of the top amateur experts in the field of mollusks. [3]
The Conchologist (1891–1894) [36] → The Journal of Malacology (1894–1905) [37] The Festivus – a journal which started as a club newsletter in 1970, published by the San Diego Shell Club [38] The Nautilus – since 1886 published by Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum. First two volumes were published under name The Conchologists’ Exchange.
The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known Shell, with second title Figures of non-descript Shells collected in the different Voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764, 1784, 4 vols. in French and English, including descriptions of British collections and forty coloured plates.