John Fleming (naturalist)

Prof John Fleming's grave, Dean Cemetery

John Fleming FRSE FRS FSA (10 January 1785 – 18 November 1857) was a Scottish Free Church minister, naturalist, zoologist and geologist. He named and described several species of mollusc. During his life he tried to reconcile theology with science.

Fleming Fjord in Greenland was named after him.[1]

  1. ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 12 August 2019.