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John Gwyn Jeffreys

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John Gwyn Jeffreys FRS (18 January 1809 – 21 January 1885) was a British conchologist and malacologist. [1]

33 relations: Alfred Merle Norman, Barrister, Biology, Bishop Gore School, British Science Association, Cerithiopsidae, Charles William Peach, Conchology, Dredging, Edward Waller (zoologist), English Channel, Geological Society of London, George Brettingham Sowerby II, Henry Moseley, Hertfordshire, Irish Sea, Janthinidae, Kensington, Linnean Society of London, Llangennech, Malacology, Marine biology, Mollusca, National Museum of Natural History, Physicist, Rissoella opalina, Royal Society, Scotland, Shetland, Smithsonian Institution, Swansea, Ware, Hertfordshire, William Healey Dall.

Alfred Merle Norman

Alfred Merle Norman (29 August 1831 – 26 October 1918) was an English clergyman and naturalist.

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Barrister

A barrister (also known as barrister-at-law or bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

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Bishop Gore School

The Bishop Gore School (Ysgol Esgob Gore) is a secondary school in Swansea in Wales, founded on 14 September 1682 by Hugh Gore (1613–1691), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Cerithiopsidae

Cerithiopsidae are a family of very small and minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the informal group Ptenoglossa.

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Charles William Peach

Charles William Peach ALS (30 September 1800 – 28 February 1886) was a British naturalist and geologist.

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Conchology

Conchology (from κόγχος konkhos, "cockle") is the study of mollusc shells.

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Dredging

Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in harbours, shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments to deepen or widen the sea bottom / channel.

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Edward Waller (zoologist)

Edward Waller (1803–1873) was an Irish zoologist.

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English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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George Brettingham Sowerby II

George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812 – 26 July 1884) was a British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist.

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Henry Moseley

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (23 November 1887 – 10 August 1915) was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea (Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Y Keayn Yernagh, Erse Sea, Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Môr Iwerddon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the Straits of Moyle.

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Janthinidae

Janthinidae, common name the purple snails or violet snails, are a family of pelagic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group Ptenoglossa of the clade Hypsogastropoda.

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Kensington

Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.

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Linnean Society of London

The Linnean Society of London is a society dedicated to the study of, and the dissemination of information concerning, natural history, evolution and taxonomy.

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Llangennech

Llangennech is a village in the area of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, which covers an area of.

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Malacology

Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods.

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Marine biology

Marine biology is the scientific study of marine life, organisms in the sea.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History is a natural-history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Rissoella opalina

Rissoella opalina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Rissoellidae.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Shetland

Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Ware, Hertfordshire

Ware is a town of around 18,800 people in Hertfordshire, England close to the county town of Hertford.

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William Healey Dall

William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gwyn_Jeffreys

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