George Washington Tryon
George Washington Tryon is a British conchyliologist , born the May 20th 1838 with Philadelphia and dead the February 5th 1888.
Biography
He is the son of Edward K. Tryon and Adeline born Savidt. He directs a factory of weapon and equipment for hunting. He is member of the Academy off Natural Sciences off Philadelphia in 1859 and contributes mainly to the construction of new buildings for the institution. He organizes there a section devoted to the Conchyliologie in 1866. He offers to the Academy his collection personal rich of 10.000 S. He ensures the station of conservative of 1869 his death.Tryon is the author of more than 70 publications on the Mollusque S and off directs the publication American Journal Conchology of 1865 to 1872. It makes appear off Manual Conchology, Structural and Systematic, with Illustrations off the Species (first edition in a volume in 1879, republished and enriched in three volumes by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862-1957) in 1888).
Tryon also makes appear a comic opera, Amy Cassonet gold the Elopement , in 1875. He travels in Europe in 1874 and 1877.
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