Dear Listers,

Malacology has lost one of its giants. Dr. Fred G. Thompson, Curator 
Emeritus of Malacology, later Invertebrate Zoology, Florida Museum of 
Natural History, died this morning in Ocala, Florida.

Fred's work on American Hydrobiidae, particularly of the southeastern 
states as well as New World and Paleotropical terrestrial mollusks 
was pioneering and exemplary.

He will be missed by the many whose lives he enriched, e.g., the 
undersigned <http://www.jaxshells.org/freshwat.htm>.

Harry G. Lee, MD FLS

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