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- Title
James Thomas Marshall's correspondence (1887–1895) with Scotland's Alexander Somerville: practical, personal and controversial matters in conchology.
- Authors
Moore, P. G.
- Abstract
Attention is drawn to the one side remaining of a nineteenth-century correspondence addressed to Alexander Somerville that is housed in the archives of the Scottish Association for Marine Science at Oban, concerning conchological matters. Previously unstudied letters from James Thomas Marshall shed new light on the practicalities of offshore dredging by nineteenth-century naturalists in the Clyde Sea Area; on personalities within conchology; on the controversies that raged among the conchological community about the production of an agreed list of British molluscan species and on the tensions between conchology and malacology. In particular, the criticism of Canon A. E. Norman's ideas regarding taxonomic revision of J. G. Jeffreys's British conchology, as expressed by Marshall, are highlighted.
- Subjects
OBAN (Scotland); SCOTLAND; UNITED Kingdom; MARINE sciences; ARCHIVES; DREDGING; MOLLUSKS; SEASHELLS; TAXONOMY; NATURALISTS; SOCIETIES
- Publication
Archives of Natural History, 2009, Vol 36, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0260-9541
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/E0260954108000582