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Captain Thomas Brown FRSE FLS was a British naturalist and malacologist.
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Edgar Albert Smith was a British zoologist, a malacologist.
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The Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging (NMV), known in English as the Netherlands Malacological Society or the Dutch Malacological Society, is a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands. It is a society devoted to malacology as well as conchology. The NMV was founded in 1934, and the members include both professionals and amateurs. The NMV created a European malacological society which later became the global society Unitas Malacologica.
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- ↑ Hill, Rosemary. "The Conchological Society". The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
