William Wood (zoologist)

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William Wood (* 1774 in Kendal ; † May 26, 1857 in Ruislip , Middlesex ) was a British malacologist and entomologist .

Life

His main occupation was a surgeon and trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He then practiced in Wingham (Kent) and from 1801 in London, but then from 1815 onwards he became a bookseller and publisher in the Strand in London, where he mainly sold and printed books on natural history. In 1840 he moved to Ruislip. He had a son.

The first description of the scallop Aequipecten muscosus comes from him .

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1812) and the Linnean Society (1798).

Fonts

  • Zoography; or the Beauties of Nature displayed in select Descriptions from the Animal and Vegetable, with additions from the Mineral Kingdom, London: W. Daniell, 3 volumes, 1807 to 1811
  • General Conchology, Volume 1, London, 1815, reprinted 1835
  • Index testaceologicus, or, A catalog of shells, British and foreign: arranged according to the Linnean system: with the Latin and English names, references to authors, and places where found: illustrated with 2,300 figures, London: William Wood 1818, 2. Edition 1828 (new edition by Sylvanus Hanley 1855/56)
  • Illustrations of the Linnean Genera of Insects, 2 volumes, London, 1821
  • Catalog of the best works of Natural History, 1824, 2nd edition 1832
  • Index entomologicus, or, A complete illustrated catalog, consisting of 1,944 figures, of the lepidopterous insects of Great Britain, London: William Wood, 1839 (new edition John Obadiah Westwood 1854)
  • An illustrated, enlarged, and English edition of Lamarck's Species of shells comprising the whole of the recent additions in Deshayes' last French edition, with numerous species not noticed by that naturalist, accompanied by accurate delineations of almost all the shells described, London: W Wood 1843
  • Fossilia Hantoniensia, London 1829
  • A complete Illustration of the British Freshwater Fishes, London 1840

literature

  • SP Dance: On William Wood's General Conchology and Index Testaceologicus. Basteria, 36, 1972, pp. 15-162.

Web links

Wikisource: William Wood  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pectinidae
personal data
SURNAME Wood, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British malacologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Kendal
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1857
Place of death Ruislip , Middlesex