Joshua Alder
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Joshua Alder (born April 7, 1792 in Newcastle upon Tyne , † January 21, 1867 ) was a British zoologist who specialized in gastropods and tunicates .
Alder was the son of a shopkeeper in Newcastle and apprenticed to his father. Later he ran the shop himself. In 1815 he became a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle and began to be interested in natural history. He was particularly concerned with land and freshwater snails and was with his friend Albany Hancock in 1829 founder of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne.
With Hancock he wrote a multi-volume monograph on nudibranchs , which was the Ray Society's first major book project . Her monograph on British tunicata was published posthumously.
Fonts
- with A. Hancock: A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of all the species, 7 parts, Ray Society 1845 to 1855 (part 8 as a supplement by C. Eliot 1910) OCLC 1209624
- with A. Hancock: The British Tunicata; an unfinished monograph, by the late Joshua Alder and the late Albany Hancock, editor John Hopkinson , 3 volumes, Ray Society 1905, 1907, 1912 OCLC 1496919
Web links
- Natural History Society of Northumbria
- Literature by and about Joshua Alder in the WorldCat bibliographic database
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| SURNAME | Alder, Joshua |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1867 |