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His most best-known works are American Seashells, Seashells of the World, and The Kingdom of the Seashell. John DuPont is also known for his extensive collection which he donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History in 1984. The Japanese emperor Hirohito also amassed a huge collection, and was a competent and respected amateur conchologist.
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.
Jeffreys was the author of a number of books and articles on conchology and the mechanics of sea dredging. Of particular note was British Conchology, or an account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas (five volumes, 1862 – 1865), illustrated by George Brettingham Sowerby II.
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.
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American malacologists at a Washington meeting in 1914. Bryant Walker (1856–1936) (back left), George Hubbard Clapp (1858–1949), Truman Heminway Aldrich (1848–1932), John Brooks Henderson Jr. (1870–1923) (back right),
His initial scientific interesting concerned collecting shells and he began as a conchologist. Although he had little more than a high school education he became well regarded in the field and in 1889 was hired by the Smithsonian Institution. [1] He went on to work at the National Museum of Natural History from 1899 to 1902. He was interested ...