John Gwyn Jeffreys
John Gwyn Jeffreys (born January 18, 1809 in Swansea , † January 21, 1885 in Kensington (London) ) was a British malacologist . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1840 .
Life
Jeffreys, the offspring of a long-established respected Welsh family, attended school in Swansea, was from the age of 17 an assistant and apprentice to a lawyer in Swansea and practiced there as a lawyer and from 1856 in London. Since his youth he has been passionate about collecting mussels and snails and researching their biology. From 1861 to 1865 he undertook marine expeditions with his own yacht (the Osprey, 51 feet long) in the waters around England, off France, the Shetland Islands, Norway and Greenland, where he also invited other scientists. He also got a number of initial descriptions. He was the scientific leader of the Porcupine Expedition (1869/70), the first British scientific trawl expedition, the French Travailleur Expedition (1880) and the Valorous Expedition to Greenland (1875). He resided in the former monastery Greyfriars Priory in Ware in Herfordshire and was High Sheriff of Herfordshire in 1877. After the death of his wife, he moved to Kensington.
His extensive malacological collection was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC (via William Healey Dall ), where it is part of the National Museum of Natural History.
In 1840 he married Ann Nevill, with whom he had a son and four daughters. He was the grandfather of the physicist Henry Moseley .
Many marine taxa are named after him.
Fonts
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British Conchology, or an account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas. 5 volumes, London: van Voorst, 1862 to 1869
- On the Internet Archives: Volume 1: Land and freshwater shells , Volume 2: Marine shells , Volume 3: Marine shells , Volume 4: Marine shells , Volume 5: Marine shells
literature
- Anonymous, Obituary in Nature, 31, 1885, pp. 317-318
- WB Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys, Proc. Royal Society 38, 1885, XIV-XVIII
- WH Dall, Obituary in Science, 5, 1885, pp. 145-146
- EL Mills: Edward Forbes, John Gywn Jeffreys, and British dredging before the Challenger expedition. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 8, 1978, pp. 507-536.
- AE Salisbury: Notes on the Jeffreys Collection. Journal of Conchology 23 (2), 1949, pp. 55-56
- A. Warén: Marine Mollusca described by John Gwyn Jeffreys, with the location of the type material. Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Special Publication 1, 1980 (60 pages)
Web links
- Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names
- Picture, Museum of Wales
- Malacologist Biographies, Museum Wales
- Works in the Internet Archive
References and comments
- ↑ To be more precise, borrowed from his brother-in-law
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jeffreys, John Gwyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British malacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swansea |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1885 |
| Place of death | Kensington (London) |