Robert Boog Watson

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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 during the H.M.S. Challenger expedition to survey the world's oceans from 1873-1876.[1] Watson also described various Opisthobranchia from Madeira.[2]

Works

  • Robert Boog Watson (1897?). On the marine mollusca of Maderia : with descriptions of thirty-five new species and an index-list of all known sea-dweling species of that island. 
  • George Dixon; Robert Boog Watson (1858). A Descriptive Manual of British Land and Fresh Water Shells, Containing Descriptions and Figures of All the Species. 

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. Retrieved 2009-03-13. 
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