Robert Damon (1814 – 4 May 1889) was an
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conchologist and
geologist
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.
Damon was at first a
hosier
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and
glover but with his son Robert Ferris Damon (1845–1929) he established a dealership in natural history specimens in
Weymouth. The company supplied museums throughout North and South America, Australia and Europe with much Dorset geological material from the late 1840s to 1914. In 1860 Damon wrote ''Geology of Weymouth and the Isles of Portland; with Notes on the Natural History of the Coast and Neighbourhood'' which includes a map of the district, geological sections, plates of fossils, and coast views, in 1884 a second edition with archaeological notes was published. He also wrote (and published himself in 1857) ''A catalogue of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland with their synonyms and authorities''.
Damon died aged 75 at his museum in Weymouth from heart disease.
The species ''
Amoria damonii'' Gray, and ''
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 ...
'' were named in his honor.
References
*H. Crosse & P. Fischer, 1890. "Nécrologie". ''Journal de Conchyliologie'' 38(1): 89-90.
''2,400 Years of Malacology''Eugene V. Coan, Alan R. Kabat, Richard E. Petit
External links
The Mineralogical Record
1814 births
1889 deaths
English palaeontologists
People from Weymouth, Dorset
Date of birth missing
Fellows of the Geological Society of London
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