Nationality British Name Richard Lowe | Role Botanist | |
Alma mater Christ's College, Cambridge Died April 13, 1874, Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom Education Christ's College, Cambridge Books A History of the Fishes of Madeira Fields Botany, Ichthyology, Malacology | ||
Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) was an English scientist, a botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and a clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, and in the same year he took holy orders. In 1832 he became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands, where he was also a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna. He wrote a book on the Madeiran flora. He died in 1874 when the ship he was on was wrecked off the Scilly Isles.
Taxa
Lowe named and described numerous molluscan taxa, including:
References
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