Lovell Augustus Reeve
Lovell Augustus Reeve (born April 19, 1814 in Ludgate Hill (London) , † November 18, 1865 in Covent Garden , London ) was a British malacologist and publisher.
Life
Reeve initially trained as a retail salesman and during the apprenticeship began to be interested in collecting conchylia. He dealt with Conchylien with his own shop in London and published books about them, especially the multi-volume Conchologia iconica with 27,000 illustrations on 2,727 colored plates (with 281 monographs on 289 genres). However, many of the species he created did not withstand later revisions. The book was designed for conchylia collectors and he was assisted by George Brettingham Sowerby II . His publishing house also published books, for example on botany.
From 1850 to 1856 he was the editor and owner of the Literary Gazette .
His publishing house L. Reeve & Co. existed until 1980.
Memberships
In 1846 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and in 1853 the Geological Society of London . In 1841 Reeve was introduced by Sauveur Abel Aubert to Petit de la Saussaye as member number 229 of the Société cuviérienne .
Initial descriptions
He is u. a. First descriptor of the mussels Chlamys nobilis Reeve 1852, Chlamys vexillum Reeve 1853 and Gloripallium speciosum Reeve 1853.
Fonts
- Conchologia Systematica, London, 2 volumes 1841/42
- Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, 20 volumes, London, 1843-1878
- with Agnes Catlow: The Conchologist's Nomenclator, London, 1845
- Letter to the Earl of Derby on the Management, Character, and Progress of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1846
- Initiamenta Conchologica, in 20 parts of 4 volumes, London 1846 to 1860
- with Arthur Adams , Chapter Mollusks in: Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Samarang, 1848
- Account of the Shells collected ... N. of Beechey Island, in Belcher: The Last of the Arctic Voyages, Volume 2, 1855
- Synopsis of British seaweeds, compiled from Professor Harvey's 'Phycologia Britannica,' London, 1857
- Notes of a photographic expedition in Jephson's 'Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany,' 1859
- Elements of Conchology, 2 volumes, London 1860
- The Land and Freshwater Mollusks indigenous to… the British Isles, London, 1863.
He was editor of the Literary papers by… Prof. E. Forbes (London, 1835), The Stereoscopic Magazine ( 1858-1868 ) and Portraits of Men of Eminence (2 volumes 1863, continued by E. Walford).
literature
- BBW, Article in Dictionary of National Biography , wikisource
- Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 4 , 1841, p. 240 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 240.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reeve, Lovell Augustus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British malacologist and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludgate Hill (London) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1865 |
| Place of death | Covent Garden , London |