Edgar Albert Smith
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Edgar Albert Smith (November 29, 1847 - July 22, 1916) was British zoologist.
Smith was born in London. He was employed at the British Museum from 1867. He was the author of A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries (London, 1901), with Francis Jeffrey Bell (1855-1924) and Randolph Kirkpatrick, foreword by Sir Edwin Ray Lankester.
Smith studied molluscs brought back by various expeditions like those of the HMS Challenger (1873 to 1876), of HMS Alert (1884), Terra Nova in the Antarctic (1910), etc.
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- This article is based on a translation of the the article Edgar Albert Smith from the French Wikipedia on 8 December 2006.
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