Edgar Albert Smith

Edgar Albert Smith
Born(1847-11-29)29 November 1847
London, England
Died22 July 1916(1916-07-22) (aged 68)
Acton, London, England
Children6
Parent(s)
Academic career
FieldsZoology, malacology
InstitutionsBritish Museum, now named Natural History Museum
Author abbrev. (zoology)E. A. Smith
The grave of Edgar Albert Smith, with a shell of the giant clam on top of the headstone

Edgar Albert Smith (29 November 1847 – 22 July 1916) was a British zoologist, a malacologist.

His father was Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and assistant keeper of zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury.[1] Edgar Albert Smith was educated both at the North London Collegiate School and privately, being well grounded in Latin amongst other subjects, as his excellent diagnoses bear witness.[2]

Smith married in July 1876.[2] Subsequently, his wife and he had four sons and two daughters.[2]

He gave more prominent attention to the fauna of the African Great Lakes and the marine molluscs of South Africa,[2] and also the non-marine mollusc fauna of Borneo and New Guinea.[2]

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