Lightfoot, Reverend John (1735-1788). Librarian and chaplain to the Dowager
Duchess of Portland, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck. Authored her auction list
of shells after her death, the Portland Catalogue, and unknowingly became
the author of many species. Although Solander was the "curator," he did not
write the Catalogue as many originally believed. Most specimens were sold
and are now lost. A few presumably at British Museum (NH).

Leach, W.E. (1790-1836). Some types in BM(NH).

Another excellent, but overlooked, source for biographies on conchologists is:

Iredale, T. & A.F.B. Hull. 1927. A monograph of the Australian loricates.
Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. 168 pp.

Appendix C has biographies of chiton workers, some very obscure and found
nowhere else, but most are very recognizable names. After all, all of your
really good malacologists worked on chitons...

And to add to the culinary discussion, I once had baby octopus pickled in
it's own ink. I never had it again.






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