Article ID: CBB000931225

James Thomas Marshall's Correspondence (1887--1895) with Scotland's Alexander Somerville: Practical, Personal and Controversial Matters in Conchology (2009)

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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. Keywords. Mollusca, Alfred Merle Norman, John Gwyn Jeffreys, dredging, Clyde

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Authors & Contributors
Yale, Elizabeth E.
Moore, P. G.
Dance, S. Peter
D. Mierzwa-Szymkowiak
Erika Behrisch Elce
Day, John G.
Concepts
Natural history
Conchology
Marine biology
Correspondence and corresponding
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Collectors and collecting
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Early modern
17th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
Honolulu (Hawaii)
Hamburg (Germany)
England
Hawaii (U.S.)
Institutions
British Admiralty
Scottish Association for Marine Science
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Great Britain. Royal Navy
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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