Edgar Albert Smith (29 November 1847 – 22 July 1916) was a British
zoologist
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, a
malacologist
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entomologist
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, and assistant keeper of zoology in the British Museum,
Bloomsbury
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Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
. Edgar Albert Smith was educated both at the
North London Collegiate School
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and privately, being well grounded in Latin amongst other subjects, as his excellent diagnoses bear witness.
Smith married in July 1876. Subsequently, his wife and he had four sons and two daughters.
He gave more prominent attention to the fauna of the
African Great Lakes
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Borneo
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and
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
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It is a simplified version of ...
.
In the British Museum
Smith was employed at the
British Museum
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(now
Natural History Museum
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) as an assistant keeper of the zoological department for more than 40 years, from 1867 to 1913. Edgar Smith's first work was in connection with the celebrated collection of shells made by Hugh Cuming and acquired by the museum in 1846, at which he worked under Dr.
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for ...
. From 1871, he was in immediate charge of the collection of molluscs, whilst till 1878, he was also responsible for the rest of the
marine invertebrate
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s with the exception of the Crustacea. On the removal of the natural history collections from
Bloomsbury
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Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
to
South Kensington
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, the arrangement of the Molluscan Collection in the then new Natural History Museum was, of course, his peculiar care and was planned by him with a special eye to the convenience of the numerous students and amateur collectors who have not been slow to avail themselves of it. In 1895, Edgar Smith obtained his well-deserved promotion to the post of assistant keeper in the Zoological Department.
Expeditions
Smith studied
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
Kerguelen Islands
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and
Rodrigues
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were set forth in the special volume (vol. clxviii) of the ''Philosophical Transactions'' of the Royal Society in 1879. The accounts of shells procured during the voyages of ''Alert'' to the
Straits of Magellan
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and the Indo-Pacific (1878–1882) were published in 1881Smith E. A. (1881). "Account of the zoological collection made during the survey of H.M.S. ''Alert'', in the Straits of Magellan and on the coast of Patagonia, IV: Mollusca and Molluscoida". ''
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
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'' 1881(1) 22 44 Plate 3 and 1884.
The reports on the bivalves and '' Heteropoda'' brought home by the ''Challenger'' expedition (1873–1876) were the most noteworthy of this series, and appeared in 1885 and 1888, respectively.
Mention must also be made of his reports on the collections of molluscs of during
Southern Cross expedition
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published 1902, from
Sokotra
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1903, from the
Maldives
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and
Laccadives
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The name ''Lakshadweep'' means "one lakh islands" in Sanskrit, though the Lacc ...
1902 and 1903, from the National Antarctic expedition of 1901–1904 in 1907, and finally the expedition in the Antarctic of 1910 in published in 1915.
Awards and memberships
Smith became a
fellow of the Zoological Society of London
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History
On 29 ...
in 1872. He became a member of the
Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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in 1886 and he became president of the Conchological Society in 1890. He was also a corresponding member of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, and of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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, whilst he was also made an honorary member of the Midland Malacological Society, as well as of the Malacological Section of the
Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society
Birmingham Natural History Society was a learned society for the study of the natural history of Birmingham, England, and in the surrounding Midlands region, and beyond. It was founded in 1858, and was a registered charity. The Society has had ...
. He was a founding member of the
Malacological Society of London
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, and was the president of the Malacological Society of London in 1901–1903. He was an editor of ''
Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London
The ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Malacological Society of London, covering research in malacology.
'' in 1904–1916, and at the time of his death. He served as a member of the British Association Committee which was appointed in 1890 to "Report on the present state of our knowledge of the Zoology of the
Sandwich Islands
The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kur ...
", and which reported regularly from 1891 till 1912.
He received the
Imperial Service Order
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in 1903 during the reign of
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
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The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria an ...
for his long and meritorious services to science.
Bibliography
Smith wrote 10 papers on the
Echinodermata
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, published between 1876 and 1879. Most of his efforts, though, went into the systematic study of molluscs. His research resulted in the publication of 300 separate memoirs on the
Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
, and a few dealing with the Echinodermata. Among his valuable works is the account of the bivalves collected by the''Challenger'' expedition.
He was the author of ''A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries'' (London, 1901), with Francis Jeffrey Bell (1855–1924) and
Randolph Kirkpatrick
Randolph Kirkpatrick (1863 – 1950) was a British spongiologist, cnidariologist and bryozoologist. He was assistant keeper of lower invertebrates at the British Natural History Museum from 1886 until his retirement in 1927.
Kirkpatrick ...
, foreword by Sir
Edwin Ray Lankester
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An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was th ...
.
From Africa
The molluscan faunas of the African Great Lakes also claimed his attention, and formed the subject of a presidential address before the Malacological Society of London, in which no support was given to the views of Mr. John Edmund Sharrock Moore, who regarded the gastropods of
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. ...
as representing forms that had their origin in marine Jurassic times. Smith had described 18 new taxa based on shells collected by explorer
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* Joseph Thomson (cricketer) (1877-1953), Australian cricketer
*Joseph Thomson (explorer)
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'' 1877 712 722. Plates 74–75.
** '' Melanoides turritispira'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** '' Melanoides pupiformis'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** '' Melanoides polymorpha'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** ''Melania simonsi'' E. A. Smith, 1877 – it is considered as a synonym of '' Melanoides nodicincta'' (Dohrn, 1865), but it may be a separate species.
** '' Melanoides nyassana'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** '' Lanistes solidus'' E. A. Smith, 1877
** ''Lanistes affinis'' E. A. Smith, 1877 is a synonym of '' Lanistes ellipticus'' Martens, 1866
** '' Gabbiella stanleyi'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** '' Bulinus nyassanus'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** '' Bulinus succinoides'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** '' Bullia mozambicensis'' E. A. Smith, 1877
** ''Donax aemulus'' E. A. Smith, 1877 is a synonym of '' Donax lubricus'' Hanley, 1845
1880
* Smith E. A. (1880). "On the shells of Lake Tanganyika and of the neighbourhood of Ujiji, central Africa". ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1880 344 352 Plate 31
** ''
Limicolaria martensiana
''Limicolaria martensiana'' is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.
The specific name (zoology), specific name ''martensiana'' is in honor of Ger ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** '' Ennea lata'' E. A. Smith, 1880
** '' Ennea ujijiensis'' E. A. Smith, 1880
** '' Tiphobia'' E. A. Smith, 1880
** ''
Neothauma
''Neothauma '' is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Bellamyinae of the family Viviparidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neothauma E. A. Smith, 1880. Accessed ...
'' E. A. Smith, 1880
** ''
Neothauma tanganyicense
''Neothauma '' is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Bellamyinae of the family Viviparidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neothauma E. A. Smith, 1880. Accessed t ...
'' E. A. Smith, 1880
* Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa". ''
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
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Stanleya neritinoides
''Stanleya neritinoides'' is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.
''Stanleya neritinoides'' is probably the only species in the genus ''Stanleya''. The genus ''Stanleya'' may be closely relat ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** ''
Tanganyicia rufofilosa
''Tanganyicia rufofilosa'' is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.Strong E. E. & Glaubrecht M. (2002). "Evidence for convergent evolution of brooding in a unique gast ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** '' Syrnolopsis'' E. A. Smith, 1880
** '' Syrnolopsis lacustris'' E. A. Smith, 1880
** '' Melanoides admirabilis'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** ''Melania tanganyicensis'' E. A. Smith, 1880 is a synonym of '' Melanoides polymorpha'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** '' Mabiliella notabilis'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** ''Achatina thomsoni'' E. A. Smith, 1880 is a synonym of '' Achatina spekei'' Dohrn
** '' Achatina kirkii'' E. A. Smith, 1880
** '' Subulona solidiuscula'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** '' Subulona lenta'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** '' Streptaxis craveni'' E. A. Smith, 1880
** ''Streptaxis gigas'' E. A. Smith, 1880 was described according to juvenile shell and it has never been found again. It belong to genus '' Gigantaxis'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** ''
Gonaxis mozambicensis
''Gonaxis'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastr
opod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gonaxis J. W. Taylor, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)
** '' Caelatura aegyptica'' (Cailliaud, 1826) f. ''horei'' (E. A. Smith, 1880) or '' Coelatura horei'' (E. A. Smith, 1880)Graf D. L. (2008) ''Coelatura horei'' In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. . Downloaded on 28 August 2011.
** ''Unio thomsoni'' E. A. Smith, 1880 is a synonym of '' Grandideriera burtoni'' (Woodward, 1859)
1881
* Smith E. A. (1881). "On a collection of shells from lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa and other localities in East Africa". ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1881 276 300. Plate 32 34.
** '' Zingis nyassana'' (E. A. Smith, 1881)
** '' Achatina craveni'' E. A. Smith, 1881
** ''Ampullaria gradata'' E. A. Smith, 1881 is a synonym of '' Pila ovata'' (Olivier, 1804)
** ''Segmentina'' (''Planorbula'') ''alexandrina'' Ehrenberg var. ''tanganyicensis'' E. A. Smith, 1881 is referred as a synonym of ''
Biomphalaria sudanica
''Biomphalaria sudanica'' is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. ''Biomphalaria sudanica'' has a discoidal, brown shell with an approximate she ...
'' (von Martens, 1870)
** ''Unio nyassaensis'' Lea var. ''tanganyicensis'' E. A. Smith, 1881 is a synonym of '' Nyassunio nyassaensis'' (Lea, 1864)
* Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new species of shells from Lake Tanganyika". ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1881 558 561.
** ''
Paramelania
''Paramelania'' is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.
Distribution
Species of the genus ''Paramelania'' live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.
Species
There are two desc ...
'' E. A. Smith, 1881
** ''
Paramelania damoni
''Paramelania damoni'' is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.
The specific name ''damoni'' is in honor of Robert Damon from Weymouth, who collected the type speci ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1881)
** ''Tiphobia'' (''Paramelania'') ''nassa'' Woodward var. ''paucicostata'' E. A. Smith, 1881 is a synonym of ''
Lavigeria nassa
''Lavigeria nassa'' is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum (gastropod), operculum, aquatic animal, aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family Paludomidae.
This species is found in Burundi, the Demo ...
Journal of Molluscan Studies
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'' 76(1): 87–100. .
1899
** '' Curvella nyasana'' E. A. Smith, 1899
** '' Curvella whytei'' E. A. Smith, 1899Bruggen A. C. van (2010). "A new record of ''Achatina' vassei'' Germain, 1918 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Achatinidae) from Mozambique – an unsolved problem". ''
Zoologische Mededelingen
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Trachycystis lamellifera
''Trachycystis lamellifera'' is a species of gastropod belonging to the family Charopidae
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'' (E. A. Smith, 1903)
1904
* Smith E. A. (1904). "Some remarks on the Mollusca of Lake Tanganyika". ''
Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London
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'' 6 77 104.
** '' Bridouxia rotundata'' (E. A. Smith, 1904)
** ''Burtonilla'' E. A. Smith, 1904 is a synonym of '' Anceya'' Bourguignat, 1885Brown D. S. (1994). ''Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance''.
Taylor & Francis
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. .
From Madagascar
* Smith E. A. (1882). "A contribution to the Molluscan fauna of Madagascar". ''
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Madagasikara johnsoni
''Madagasikara johnsoni'' is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pachychilidae.Köhler, F. & Glaubrecht, M. (2010). "Uncovering an overlooked radiation: molecular phy ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1882)
** ...
From Borneo
* Smith E. A. (1904). "Description of a new species of ''Opisthostoma'' from Borneo". ''
Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London
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* ''Potamopyrgus jenkinsi'' (E. A. Smith, 1889) is a synonym of ''
Potamopyrgus antipodarum
The New Zealand mud snail (''Potamopyrgus antipodarum'') is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum. This aquatic gastropod mollusk is in the family Tateidae.
It is native to New Zealand, where it is found throug ...
'' (Gray, 1843)
Mr. Smith had some slight connection with
geological
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work, as he was appealed to on more than one occasion to determine molluscan remains found in the post-
Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 He was also joint author with Richard Bullen Newton of a paper:
* Newton R. B. & Smith E. A. (1912). "On the survival of a Miocene Oyster in Recent Seas". '' Records of the Geological Survey of India'' 42: 1–15 pp., 8 plates.
From South America
1877
** ''
Plekocheilus roseolabrum
''Plekocheilus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Amphibulimidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plekocheilus Guilding, 1827. Accessed through: World Regi ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** ''
Drymaeus aequatorianus
''Drymaeus'' is a large genus of medium-sized air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Peltellinae of the family Bulimulidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Drymaeus Albers, 1850. Ac ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1877)
** ''
Drymaeus albolabiatus
''Drymaeus'' is a large genus of medium-sized air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Peltellinae of the family Bulimulidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Drymaeus Albers, 1850. Ac ...
Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London
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Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London
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'' 7 124 314.
** '' Mitra brettinghami'' E. A. Smith, 1907
* Smith E. A. (1907). "Description of a new species of ''Calliostoma'' from South Formosa". ''Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London'' 7 205
** '' Calliostoma formosense'' E. A. Smith, 1907
References
This article incorporates public domain text from referencesAnonymous (1916). "Edgar Albert Smith, I.S.O., late conchologist of the British Museum". ''
Geological Magazine
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'' (n.s.) (decade 6)3(9): 431–432. .Woodward B. B. (1917). "Edgar Albert Smith, 1847–1916". ''
Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London
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(in chronology order)
* Smith E. A. (1899?). "A catalogue of papers on Mollusca and Echinodermata by Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc." London: privately printed by Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ld., 14 pp.
* Anonymous (1916). "E. A. Smith". '' The Nautilus'' 30(7) 84
* Woodward B. B. (1917). "Edgar Albert Smith, 1847–1916". ''
Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London
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'' 12(3): 215–217.
* Knight G. A. F. (1920). "Memorial notice of the late Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S., I.S.O." '' Glasgow Naturalist'' 8(4): 119–122.
* Boettger C. R. (1921). "Edgar Albert Smith". ''
Archiv für Molluskenkunde
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Coverage
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Journal de Conchyliologie
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'' 66(1): 86–87.
* Verdcourt B. (1974). "Bibliography of the papers of E. A. Smith relating to non-marine Mollusca of tropical Africa". ''Achatina'' 5: 117–119.
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