Robert Tucker Abbott

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Robert Tucker Abbott is a American malacologist , born the September 28th 1919 with Watertown in the Massachusetts and dead the November 3rd 1995 of the continuations of a lung disease.

During the Second world war, it is pilot of bomber then, after two years, it is affected with an research unit in charge of the study of the Schistosomiase, a frightening disease transmitted by molluscs. It makes its studies at the university of Harvard and off obtains a Master Sciences with the Université George Washington in 1953 and a doctorate in 1955. Starting from this date, he works for the National Museum off Natural History then for the Academy off Natural Sciences off Philadelphia until in 1969. In 1970, it becomes directly natural history museum of the Delaware to Wilmington. In 1977, it founds American Malacologists Inc. with Melbourne (Florida). It makes appear more than thirty books on the Coquillage S. Its last project, the museum of the Bailey-Matthews shells, opened two weeks after its death. It is buried with the military cemetery of Arlington.

List partial of the publications

1952 : Two new opisthobranch mollusks from the GULF off Mexico City belonging to the generated Pleurobranchaea and Polycera. Florida State University Studies , No 7 , Papers from the Oceanographic Institute, pp. 1-7, pls. 1,2.
1954: The clothes and occurrence off the nudibranch, Armina tigrina, in southeast United States. Nautilus 67 : 83-86.
1955 : Introducing seashells; colorful guide for the beginning collector has (Van Nostrand, New York).
1958 : The marinades off mollusks Large Cayman Island, British West Indies (Philadelphia).
1961 : How to know the American marinades shells (New American Library, New York).
1968 : American seashells, the marine Mollusca off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts off North America (Van Nostrand - republished in 1974).
1974 : American Malacologists. With National Register off Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies off Early American Mollusk Workers Born Between 1618 and 1900 , American Malacologists (Falls Church, Virginia): iv + 494 p.
1976: Sheashells (Bantam, London, Toronto).
1987 : New fishy home for mollusks. Conchol. Amndt Bull. 15 (1): 8.
1987: Why moon-struck snails face east. Conchol. Amndt Bull. 15 (1): 4.
1990: The pocket guide to the seashells off the Northern hemisphere (Dragon' S World).
1982 : With Stanley Peter Dance (1932-), Compendium off seashells: has color guide to more than 4,200 off the world' S marinades shells (E.P. Dutton, New York - republished by Letts, London, 1991).
1991 : Seashells off the Northern hemisphere (Dragon' S World, Limpsfield).
1991 : Seashells off Southeast Asia (Tynron Near, Thornhill).
1993 : Seashells off Great Britain & Europe (Dragon' S World, Limpsfield).

Sources

'' Newsletter '', Unitas Malacologica
National Arlington Cemetery Website
Malacologues famous, biographies of the Belgian society of malacology

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