John Read le Brockton Tomlin
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John Read le Brockton Tomlin (1864–1954) was a British malacologist. He was one of the founders of the Malacological Society of London and was president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland
on two separate occasions.
Tomlin named more than a hundred taxa of gastropod molluscs, including:
He also named some scaphopods and bivalves.
Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland
The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland is a British-based society concerned with the study of molluscs. It was founded in 1876 and is one of the oldest such societies in the world. It is a registered UK charity that anyone can join...
on two separate occasions.
Tomlin named more than a hundred taxa of gastropod molluscs, including:
- The family AbyssochrysoideaAbyssochrysoideaAbyssochrysoidea is a superfamily of deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda.These snails are part of the fauna of the hydrothermal vents and other deep-water habitats.-Families:...
Tomlin, 1927 - The family ColumbariidaeColumbariidaeColumbariinae, also known as pagoda shells, are a subfamily of large deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae...
Tomlin, 1928
He also named some scaphopods and bivalves.
Further reading
- Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 16(1): frontispiece [portrait] [1924].
- Anonymous, 1955. J. R. le B. Tomlin. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Series C, Journal of Meetings) 19(11): 69-70.
- E. A. Salisbury, 1955. Obituary. J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1864-1954. Journal of Conchology 24(2): 29-39, pl. 2 [portrait; list of taxa].
- H. O. Ricketts & A. E. Salisbury, 1954. List of papers on Mollusca and obituaries of conchologists published by the late J. R. le B. Tomlin. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 31(3-4): 87-94.
- A. E. Salisbury, 1955. J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1864-1954. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 31(3-4): 85-87.
- Abbott, 1963: 29. Barnard, 1965: 30.
- S. P. Dance, 1971. The Melvill-Tomlin shell collection: legacy of a great collector. Amgueddfa (Cardiff) 8: 27-33.
- Cleevely, 1983 288-289. Dance, 1986: 174-175, 228. Trew, 1987: 82.
- N. McMillan, 1990. John Reade [sic] Le Brockton Tomlin (1864–1954). The Conchologists’ Newsletter 113: 291-292.
- A. Trew, 1990. John R. le B. Tomlin’s new molluscan names. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 101 pp.
- Trew, 1993: 85.
- A. N. van der Bijl, 1995. Het kontakt van M. M. Schepman met J. C. Melvill en J. R. le B. Tomlin. Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging 285: 86-92.
- Fouché, 1995: 10.
- J. E. Chatfield, 1998. Shells at Hastings: the shell collections at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, East Sussex. The Conchologists’ Newsletter 147: 90-102.
- Muñiz Solís, 2002: 278.
- J. Gallichan, 2003. Documenting the past: insights into the Tomlin archive. Mollusc World 3: 11.
- J. Gallichan, 2007. Documenting the past: the Tomlin Archive. P. 68, in: K. Jordaens, et al., eds., World Congress of Malacology Antwerp 15–20 July 2007, Abstracts, lxxix + 298 pp.