A photographic portrait of John Read le Brockton Tomlin[citation needed]

John Read le Brockton Tomlin (15 August 1864 – 24 December 1954) was a British malacologist.[1] 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.[2]

Tomlin named more than a hundred taxa of gastropod molluscs, including:

He also named some scaphopods and bivalves.

References

  1. ^ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed., 830 pp. & 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  2. ^ "J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1864–1954". Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland. accessed 4 October 2010.

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