Papers on Mollusca
By: Richard I. Johnson
Contributors: Boss, Kenneth J.; Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Department of Mollusks
Published: 1941
Language: eng
Subjects: Mollusks; Conchologists; Zoology; Natural history; Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Department of Mollusks
Other titles: Collected works of Richard I. Johnson.
Work titles: Works
Notes: Title from spines.

Collected works of Richard I. Johnson, Associate in Malacology, Dept. of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, primarily journal papers and entries and related ephemera, compiled by the author; also includes a biographical portrait of Johnson by Kenneth J. Boss (in v. 5).

Includes typescript bibliography (9 leaves ; 28 cm.) in envelope.

v. 1. Viviparous contectoides Binney in Massachusetts (1941, Nautilus, Phila. 54); Radix auricularia (Linn.) in Vermont (1945, Ibid. 58); Joseph Pitty Couthouy--a bibliography and catalogue of his species (1946, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 1 (5)); Anodonta implicata Say (1946, Ibid. 1 (9)); Lampsilis cariosa Say and Lampsilis ochracea Say (1947, Ibid. 1 (12)); The authorship of Elliptio complanatus (1948, Nautilus 62 (1)); A new naiad from Dutch New Guinea (1948, Ibid. 62 (2)); Lectotypes for two species of Asiatic Unionidae in the genus Pseudodon (Ibid.); The lost type of Obovaria depygis (Conrad) (1949, Ibid. 62 (3)); Jesse Wedgwood Mighels, with a bibliography and a catalogue of his species (1949, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 1 (14)); On the selection of lectotypes (1950, Nautilus 63); The Shell collector's handbook, by A. Hyatt Verrill [book review] (1950, Bulletin of the Massachusetts Audubon Society 34); A clarification of some Central American Unionidae described by R.A. Philippi (1951, Nautilus 64 (3)); A rectification of some Central American Unionidae (1951, Ibid. 65 (1); Shell collector's handbook, by A. Hyatt Verrill [book review] (Ibid.); Dezallier D'Argenville 1742: L'histoire naturelle eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales: La lithologie et la conchyliologie [book review] (1951, Johnsonia, MCZ 2 (50)); A study of Lamarck's types of Unionidae and Mutelidae (1952, Nautilus 66 (2-3)); Supplement to Joseph Pitty Couthouy (1954, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 1 (18)); Supplement to Jesse Wedgwood Mighels (Ibid.); Augustus Addison Gould [abstract] (1956, Annual report for 1955, American Malacological Union); ...

v. 1 (continued). The types of Naiades (Mollusca: Unionidae) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1956, MCZ bulletin 115 (4)); A visit to Thomas Say's New Harmony (1958, Annual report for 1957, American Malacological Union); The types of Corbiculidae and Sphaeridae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and a bio-bibliographic sketch of Temple Prime, an early specialist of the group (1959, MCZ bulletin 120 (4)); The Charles M. Wheatley collections (1959, Nautilus 73 (2)); Unearthing Gould's types (1960, Annual report for 1959, American Malacological Union); The arrangement and contents of the genera described in J.C. Chenu's Illustrations conchyliologiques (1843-53) (1963, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4 (2)); The recent Mollusca of Augustus Addison Gould (1964, U.S. National Museum bulletin 239); A hitherto overlooked Anodonta (Mollusca: Unionidae) from the Gulf drainage of Florida (1965, Breviora, MCZ 213).

v. 2. Illustrations of all the mollusks described by Berlin Hart and Samuel Hart Wright (1967, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 3 (35)); Carunculina pulla (Conrad), an overlooked Atlantic drainage unionid (1967, Nautilus 80 (4)); Additions to the unionid fauna of the Gulf drainage of Alabama, Georgia and Florida (Mollusca: Bivalvia) (1967, Breviora, MCZ 270); Martini and Chemnitz (Kuester's edition) Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, 1837-1920, a complete collection (1968, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4 (7)); Elliptio nigella, overlooked unionid from Apalachicola River system (1968, Nautilus 82 (1)); Semper's Reisen im Archipel der Philippenen, Wissenshaftliche Resultate, 1867-1916. A complete collation (1969, J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 5 (2)); Rossmassler's Iconographie der Land- und Susswasser-Mollusken, Europa's, continued by W. Kobelt, 1835-1920. A complete collation (Ibid.); The Unionacea of William Irvin Utterback (1969, Nautilus 82 (4)); Further additions to the unionid fauna of the Gulf drainage of Alabama, Georgia and Florida (1969, Nautilus 83 (1)); Pfeiffer's Novitates Conchologicae, Series I, Land Mollusca, 1854-1879, and Dunker's Novitates Conchologicae, Series II, Marine Mollusca, 1862-1882. A complete collation (1969, J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 5 (3)); Illustrations of Lamarck's types of North American Unionidae mostly in the Paris Museum (1969, Nautilus 83 (2)); Perry's Conchology (1811)--more than one edition (1970, J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 5 (4)); Reeve, L.A., and G.B. Sowerby, Conchologia iconica (1843-78): the original pattern set (1970, J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 5 (4)); ...

v. 2 (continued). The systematics and zoogeography of the Unionidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the Southern Atlantic Slope Region (1970, MCZ bulletin 140 (6)); The types and figured specimens of Unionacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the British Museum (Natural History) (1971, BM (Nat. Hist.) bulletin 20 (3)); Illustrations of all of the mollusks described by Lorraine Screven Frierson (1972, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 3 (41)); The fresh-water, brackish, and non-Jamaican land mollusks described by C.B. Adams / by RIJ and Kenneth J. Boss (Ibid. 3 (43)); The Unionidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of peninsular Florida (1972, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 16 (4)); The types of Unionidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) described by C.S. Rafinesque in the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris (1973, Journal de conchyliologie 110 (2)); Distribution of Hydrobiidae, a family of fresh and brackish water gastropods, in peninsular Florida (1973, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 3 (46)); Clarke, Arthur H. 1973. The freshwater molluscs of the Canadian interior basin. [book review] (Ibid.).

v. 3. The types of Unionacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia / RIJ and H. Burrington Baker (1973, Proceedings of Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 125 (9)); The types of Unionacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia : additions and corrections (1980, Ibid. 132); Heude's molluscan types, or, Asian land and fresh water mollusks, mostly from the People's Republic of China, described by P.M. Heude (1973, Special occasional publication, MCZ Mollusks Dept. 1); Examination of supposed types of fresh-water bivalves in Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1974, American Philosophical Society yearbook for 1973); Lea's unionid types, or, Recent and fossil taxa of Unionacea and Mutelacea introduced by Isaac Lea, including the location of all the extant types (1974, Special occasional paper, MCZ Mollusks Dept. 2); Addenda to be included with "Lea's figured unionid types" (1974) (1998, Ibid.); Marshall's unionid types, or, Types of recent and fossil Unionacea and Mutelacea introduced by William B. Marshall, including a bibliography of all his writings on mollusks (1974, Ibid. 3); Thomas Wyatt and Edgar Allan Poe, a pair of conchological plagiarists (1974, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 4 (50)); World's largest shell of the paper nautilus (Argonauta Argo Linnaeus) (1975, Ibid. 4 (51)); Unique purple shell of the paper nautilus (Argonauta Argo Linnaeus) (1975, Ibid. 4 (52)); R. Ellsworth Call with a bibliography of his works on mollusks and a catalogue of his taxa (1975, Ibid. 4 (54)); William A. Marsh, his introduced taxa of Unionidae or fresh water mussels (Ibid.); Cypraea leucodon Broderip, rarest shell? (Ibid.); ...

v. 3 (continued). Simpson's unionid types and miscellaneous unionid types in the National Museum of Natural History (1975, Special occasional publication, MCZ Mollusks Dept. 4); First paper on the conchology of the United States by an American author, Thomas Say, 1817 (1975, J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 7 (3)); William Stimpson [biographical entry] (1976, Dictionary of scientific biography (Scribner's) 13).

v. 4. Monograph of the genus Medionidus (Bivalvia: Unionidae) mostly from the Apalachicolan region, southeastern United States (1977, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 4 (56)); Norman Macdowell Grier, a bibliography of his work on mollusks, with a catalogue of his unionid taxa (1977, Ibid. 4 (57)); Arnold Edward Ortmann, a bibliography of his work on mollusks, with a catalogue of his recent molluscan taxa (1977, Ibid. 4 (58)); The Carnegie Museum, its collections and curators of mollusks (Ibid.); Systematics and zoogeography of Plagiola ("Dysnomia" Epioblasma), an almost extinct genus of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from middle North America (1978, MCZ bulletin 148 (6)); The types of Unionacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Museum of Zoology, the University of Michigan (1979, Malacological review 12); The types of Unionacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: additions and corrections (1980, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 132); Zoogeography of North American Unionacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) north of the maximum Pleistocene glaciation (1980, MCZ bulletin 149 (2)); Stanley Truman Brooks, a bibliography of his work on mollusks with a catalogue of his molluscan taxa (1981, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 4 (59)); Recent and fossil Unionacea and Mutelacea (freshwater bivalves) of the Caribbean Islands (1981, Ibid. 4 (60)); A new spiny mussel, Elliptio (Canthyria) Steinstansana (Bivalvia: Unionidae), from the Tar River, North Carolina / RIJ and Arthur H. Clarke (1983, Ibid. 4 (61)); ...

v. 4 (continued). Margaritifera Marrianae, a new species of Unionacea (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae) from the Mobile-Alabama-Coosa and Escambia River systems, Alabama (1983, Ibid. 4 (62)); A new mussel, Lampsilis (Lampsilis) Fullerkati (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County, North Carolina, with a list of the other unionid species of the Waccamaw River system (1984, Ibid. 4 (63)); Fusconaia collina (Conrad), from the James River, Virginia, an additional note / RIJ and Kenneth J. Boss (Ibid.); Dates of publication of the Molluscan portion (including the brachiopods) of the "Fauna del Regno di Napoli" (1829-1886) by Oronzio Gabriele Costa and Achille Costa (1984, Ibid. 4 (64)); Ignaz Elder von Born [biography] (1984, Ibid. 4 (65)); The first popular shell book (1984, Ibid. 4 (66)); Molluscan taxa of Addison Emery Verrill and Katharine Jeannette Bush, including those introduced by Sanderson Smith and Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1989, Ibid. 5 (67)).

v. 5. Richard Irwin Johnson [biographical portrait] / Kenneth J. Boss (1998, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 5); [Correction of] "A survey of the unionid fauna of the Susquehanna River Basin in Pennsylvania," by Arthur E. Bogan (1994, Triannual unionid report 4); Eighth millenium pottery from a prehistoric shell midden in the Brazilian Amazon / A.C. Roosevelt, R.A. Housley, M. Imazio da Silveira, S. Maranca, RIJ (1991, Science 254); Types of shelled Indo-Pacific mollusks described by W.H. Pease (1994, MCZ bulletin 154 (1)); Types of land and freshwater mollusks from the Hawaiian islands in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1996, Ibid. 155 (4)); Maine's Portland Society of Natural History (1997, Northeastern naturalist 4 (3)); Comments on "The final report" of a massive search for Lasmigona decorata (Lea, 1852) and Alasmidonta robusta Clarke, 1981 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the Carolinas (1997, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 5 (71)); A new mussel, Potamilis metnecktayi (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the Rio Grande system, Mexico and Texas with notes on Mexican Disconaias (1998, Ibid. 5 (76)); The myth of Octopus giganteus Verrill, 1897 : a whale of a story (Ibid.); On "The chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Ibid.); On the provenance of certain books in the Department of Mollusks (Ibid.); Addenda to be included with "Lea's figured unionid types" (1974) (1998, Special occasional paper, MCZ Mollusks Dept. 2); Addenda to be included with: "Heude's Molluscan types" (1973) (1999, Ibid. 1); ...

v. 5 (continued). Unionidae of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo del Norte) system of Texas and Mexico (1999, Occasional papers on mollusks, MCZ 6 (77)); Taxa omitted from "Unionacea" by Fritz Haas, 1969 (Ibid.); The Duchess, the Brahmin, and the chank shell (1999, Ibid. 6 (78)); On the authorship of the first American conchological manual, John Warren's "The Conchologist" (Ibid.); On the provenance of certain books in the Department of Mollusks: alas, a correction and additional notes on John Clarkson Jay (Ibid.); On "The chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes: redux (Ibid.); The Ambonese curiosity cabinet, by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction by E.M. Beekman (Ibid.); Albert Gallatin Wetherby: malacology at the Cincinnati Society of Natural History and in Ohio (1843-1896) (2002, Ibid. 6 (79)); Earliest American natural history lithograph (Ibid.); Arthur Fairfield Gray (1855-1944), his malacological contributions (2002, Ibid. 6 (80)); The mollusk collection of the Boston Society of Natural History and its disposition (Ibid.); The marvelous, monstrous, mythical, marine mollusk, Cochlea Sarmatica Thevet, 1575 (2002, Ibid. 6 (81)); The type material of Cypraea semiplota Mighels, 1845 (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) (Ibid.); On the cunning character of a couple of conchologist collectors, Wesley Newcomb and William Harper Pease (Ibid.); First colored illustrations of shells in the United States (Ibid.); Samuel Liberty Harvey Fuller (1942-2001) (2002, Ibid. 6 (82)); Additions and corrections to Clench and Turner, 1962. New names introduced by H.A. Pilsbry / RIJ and William J. Clench (2002, Dept. of Mollusks, MCZ); ...

v. 5 (continued). Samuel Liberty Harvey Fuller (1942-2001): a biographical sketch and his works on malacology (2002, Nautilus 116 (4)); Lorentz Spengler's descriptions of freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Unionacea): translation and notes / Jorgen Knudsen, Kathe R. Jensen, Claus Nielsen & RIJ (2003, Steenstrupia 27 (2)).

v. 6. A visit to the Mollusk Department: Richard I. Johnson '51 has passed 60 years in unamphibological celebration of the freshwater bivalves / Christopher Reed (2004 printout from Harvard magazine web site, Alumni section of Nov.-Dec. 1998 issue); Molluscan taxa and bibliographies of William James Clench and Ruth Dixon Turner (2003, MCZ bulletin 158 (1)); The rise and fall of the Boston Society of Natural History (2004, Northeastern naturalist 11 (1)); Conchology at the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 1817-1876 (2006, Sporadic papers on mollusks 1); John du Pont and other natural history museum related murders (Ibid.); Dates of the plates describing the mollusks collected on the "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et l'Zelee execute par ordre du roi pendant les annees 1837-1838-1839-1840 sous le commandement de M. Dumont d'Urville ..." by Hombron and Jacquinot (Ibid.); Joseph Pitty Couthouy (1808-1864) and the United States Exploring Expedition: a second look (Ibid.); Fusconaia (Lexingtonia) collina (Conrad, 1836), No longer an endemic, but a probable example of stream capture (Ibid.); Joseph Charles Bequaert (1886-1982): his malacological contributions (2006, Ibid. 2); William J. Clench and Ruth D. Turner, with a personal perspective on the Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology (2006, Ibid. 3); David Humphreys Storer (1804-1891): the conchological phase (Ibid.).

v. 7 (currently unbound, separate issues). Dwight Willard Taylor (1932-2006): his life and malacological research / Alan R. Kabat & RIJ (2008, Malacologia 50 (1-2)); Dwight Blaney and William Procter on the molluscan faunas of Frenchman Bay and Ironbound Island, Maine (2009, Northeastern naturalist 16 (4)); In memoriam: Arthur Stewart Merrill, 1916-2009 (2010, Journal of shellfish research 29 (1)).