Robert Boog Watson

Robert Boog Watson (1823–1910) 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 by on the H.M.S. Challenger expedition to survey the world's oceans during the years 1873-1876.[1] Watson also described various Opisthobranchia from Madeira.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Challenger Reports". Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) VIII: 524. 1886. doi:10.1126/science.ns-8.200S.524. 
  2. ^ Malaquias, Manuel Antonio E. (07-2004). "The opisthobranch molluscs described by the Reverend Robert Boog Watson from the Madeira archipelago (northeast Atlantic, Portugal)". Journal of Conchology (Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland) 38: 231. http://www.conchsoc.org/resources/show-abstract-38.php?id=%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2072. Retrieved 2009-03-13.