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Entertainment (Top) References Robert E. C. Stearns Article Talk Read Edit View history Tools From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Robert Edwards Carter Stearns Robert Edwards Carter Stearns (1 February 1827 Boston – 27 July 1909 Los Angeles) was an American conchologist. Robert Stearns was passionate about natural history in his youth. Later he specialised in conchology especially that of the West Coast of the United States. He was a member of the Fisheries Commission (1882–1884) and Secretary of the University of California (Berkeley) (1874–1882). He became Assistant Curator of Molluscs at the National Museum of Natural History (1885–1892). Stearns married Mary Ann Libby on 28 March 1850. They had one child a daughter. References Biography by Gerald J. Rosenzweig in Smithsonian Institution Archives. Robert Tucker Abbott (1974). American Malacologists. A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers Born Between 1618 and 1900 American Malacologists (Falls Church Virginia) : iv 494 p. ISBN 0-913792-02-0) Authority control databases Edit this at Wikidata International FAST ISNI VIAF National Germany Israel United States Other SNAC Stub icon This article about a zoologist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Categories: American malacologists1909 deaths1827 birthsScientists from Boston19th-century American zoologistsUniversity of California Berkeley peopleSmithsonian Institution peopleZoologist stubs

Robert E. C. Stearns

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Robert Edwards Carter Stearns

Robert Edwards Carter Stearns (1 February 1827, Boston – 27 July 1909, Los Angeles) was an American conchologist.

Robert Stearns was passionate about natural history in his youth. Later he specialised in conchology, especially that of the West Coast of the United States. He was a member of the Fisheries Commission (1882–1884) and Secretary of the University of California (Berkeley) (1874–1882). He became Assistant Curator of Molluscs at the National Museum of Natural History (1885–1892). Stearns married Mary Ann Libby on 28 March 1850. They had one child, a daughter.
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Biography by Gerald J. Rosenzweig in Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Robert Tucker Abbott (1974). American Malacologists. A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers Born Between 1618 and 1900, American Malacologists (Falls Church, Virginia) : iv + 494 p. ISBN 0-913792-02-0)

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