Robert Boog Watson FRSE (26 September 1823 – 23 June 1910) was a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected during the H.M.S. Challenger expedition to survey the world's oceans from 1873 to 1876.[1] Watson also described various Opisthobranchia from Madeira.[2]
- ^ "Challenger Reports". Science. VIII (200S): 524. 1886. doi:10.1126/science.ns-8.200S.524. PMID 17801255.
- ^ Malaquias, Manuel Antonio E. (July 2004). "The opisthobranch molluscs described by the Reverend Robert Boog Watson from the Madeira archipelago (northeast Atlantic, Portugal)". Journal of Conchology. 38: 231. Retrieved 13 March 2009.