George Washington Tryon

George Washington Tryon

George Washington Tryon (born May 20, 1838 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † February 5, 1888 ) was an American malacologist .

Life

Tryon, who came from a wealthy family of arms manufacturers and dealers in arms and sporting goods and who had been collecting clams and snails as a child, was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1859 and its curator from 1869 (after he retired from business life) for malacology. In 1865 he founded the American Journal of Conchology with others, which lasted until 1872, and began publishing the Manual of Conchology in 1879 , of which nine volumes had appeared by the time of his death (with 3,100 pages and 680 plates with over 12,000 illustrations). The work was continued by his assistant Henry Augustus Pilsbry . 45 volumes had appeared by 1935. Tryon was not only an author but also a publisher of the work.

Tryon has produced many publications and named numerous new species. His collection of over 10,000 copies went to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

The tryonia snail genus was named in his honor.

Fonts

• A monograph of the terrestrial mollusca inhabitating the United States, Philadelphia 1866
• A monograph of the freshwater univalve mollusca of the United States, Philadelphia 1870
• American Marine Conchology, Philadelphia 1873
• Manual of Conchology; Structural and Systematic, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, from 1879
• Structural and Systematic Conchology. An introduction to the study of Mollusca, 3 volumes, 1882 to 1884

literature

• WSW Ruschenberger, Biographical Notice of George W. Tryon Jr., Proc. Academy Natural Sciences, 1888, Archives