Malacology
91W. H. Dall — William Healey Dall, (August 21, 1845 March 27, 1927), was a great American naturalist and a prominent malacologist. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America. He would become America s preeminent authority on living and… …
92Dog whelk — Two shells of Nucella lapillus from North Wales Scientific classification Kingdom …
93Malakos — μαλακός means soft in Greek. Malakia softness is the Classical Greek term for effeminacy. Malakas is the term for wanker in modern Greek. Malacology is the study of the invertebrate phylum “Mollusca” which are “soft bodied” animals, although most …
94Tom Iredale — (24 March 1880 ndash; 12 April 1972) was an English born ornithologist and malacologist born at Stainburn, Workington, Cumberland, who had a long association with Australia where he lived for most of his life.He was apprenticed to a pharmacist… …
95Rollo Beck — Rollo Howard Beck (26 August 1870 22 November 1950) was an American ornithologist, bird collector and explorer. Beck s Petrel is named after him.Early yearsRollo Howard Beck was born in Los Gatos, California, and grew up in Berryessa working on… …
96Girdle — This article is about the item of clothing. In the Scots language, girdle refers to a cooking griddle. In malacology a girdle is part of a chiton.The word girdle originally meant a belt. In modern English the term girdle is most commonly used for …
97List of biology disciplines — This is a list of biology disciplines. NOTOC AAerobiology Anatomy Arachnology Astrobiology BBiochemistry Bionics Biogeography Bioinformatics Biological psychiatry Biomechanics Biomedical Biophysics Biotechnology BotanyCCell biology Chorology… …
98List of natural history museums — Contents 1 Africa 1.1 Botswana 1.2 Canary Islands 1.3 Egypt …
99Cetology — A researcher fires a biopsy dart at an orca. The dart will remove a small piece of the whale s skin and bounce harmlessly off the animal. Cetology (from Greek κῆτος, kētos, whale ; and λογία, logia) is the branch of marine mammal science …
100Ruth Turner — Ruth Dixon Turner (1915 April 30 2000) was a pioneering marine biologist who became the world s expert on teredos, wood boring bivalve mollusks that wreak havoc on docks and boats, creating dangerous conditions for the maritime shipping… …
