Ernest Ruthven Sykes

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Ernest Ruthven Sykes (1867-1954) was a malacologist from Great Britain. [1]

He married Gladys, who was a daughter of his malacological colleague James Cosmo Melvill. [2]

He published 99 malacological articles. [2]

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References

  1. Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. Archived 5 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine , 830 pp. & 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  2. 1 2 Rees W. J. (1962). "ERNEST RUTHVEN SYKES (1867-1954)". Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History . 4(1): 20-27. doi : 10.3366/jsbnh.1962.4.1.20.