John Gould Anthony

John Gould Anthony
Born(1804-05-15)15 May 1804
Providence, Rhode Island
Died16 October 1877(1877-10-16) (aged 73)
NationalityAmerican
Occupationnaturalist

John Gould Anthony (17 May 1804, in Providence, Rhode Island – 16 October 1877, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American naturalist who became an expert on malacology, the study of mollusks. Anthony was in charge of the conchology (now malacology) department of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology for over a decade.