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John Read le Brockton Tomlin
John Read
le
Brockton
Tomlin
was a
British
malacologist
. He was one of the
founders
of the
Malacological Society of London
and was
president
of the
Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland
on two
separate
occasions
.
Tomlin named more than a hundred
taxa
of
gastropod
molluscs
, including:
The
family
Abyssochrysoidea
Tomlin, 1927
The family
Columbariidae
Tomlin,
1928
He also named some
scaphopods
and
bivalves
.