Joshua Alder
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Joshua Alder (7 April 1792 – 21 January 1867)
He was a member of the
His drawings are in the collections of the Great North Museum: Hancock and the British Museum.[3]
Ravensworth Terrace
From 1841 to 1857 Alder was a tenant at 5 Ravensworth Terrace in the Summerhill area of Newcastle upon Tyne, which he shared with his sister Mary, a woman of independent means, and their two female servants.[2]
During this time, he ran a cheese shop in
An obituary noted that he was "everywhere accompanied" by his sister, who "assisted him in his studies and was, in short, essential to his life and health".[2]
Alder is profiled in the first episode of the second series of
Bibliography
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- Alder J. (1838). "Supplement to a catalogue of the land and fresh-water testaceous Mollusca, found in the vicinity of Newcastle". Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland and Durham 1(3): 337–342. Newcastle.
- Alder J. (1841). "Observations on the genus Polycera of Cuvier, with descriptions of two new British species". .
- Alder J. & Nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of all the species. The Ray Society, London. Published in 8 parts:
- Alder J. & Hancock A. (October 1851). "Descriptions of two new species of nudibranchiate Mollusca, one of them forming the type of a new genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 2nd ser., 8 (46): 290–302, pls. 9–10.
- Alder, Joshua, Embleton, Dennis, Hancock, Albany, Hopkinson, John, Norman, Alfred Merle, 1905–12 The British Tunicata; an unfinished monograph, by the late Joshua Alder and the late Albany Hancock. Edited by John Hopkinson, with a history of the work by the Rev. A. M. Norman. London. Printed for the Ray Society.
A contemporary review described the Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca as "one of the most admirable monographs which has ever appeared in this or any other country".
Taxa described
Alder discovered over 100 marine species, new to science.[2]
Names or synonyms of hydroids described by Alder include:[5]
- Dicoryne conferta (Alder, 1856)
- Eudendrium capillare Alder, 1856
- Hydractinia areolata Alder, 1862
- Corymorpha nana Alder, 1857
- Campanularia hincksii Alder, 1856
- Laomedea flexuosa Alder, 1857
- Laomedea neglecta Alder, 1856
- Halecium nanum Alder, 1859
- Ancula cristata (Alder, 1841)[2]
- Polyceroidea Alder & Hancock, 1845
- Fiona Alder & Hancock, 1851
- Chromodoris Alder & Hancock, 1855
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Episode 1 — Series 2". A House Through Time. Series 2. Episode 1. 8 April 2019. BBC Television.
- ^ a b "Lord Mayor joined by BBC presenter for plaque unveiling". Newcastle City Council. Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "5, Ravensworth Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne (Grade II) (1107928)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ WoRMS Editorial Board (2024). World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed 2024-01-23. doi:10.14284/170
External links
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- Works by or about Joshua Alder at Internet Archive
- Joshua Alder at the Natural History Society of Northumbria
- (in Japanese) Joshua Alder (1792-1867) and Albany Hancock (1806-1873) Bibliography
- Works by Joshua Alder at AnimalBase [1] digitized literature (includes A monograph of the British nudibranchiate, A catalogue of the land and fresh-water testaceous Mollusca found in the vicinity of Newcastle upon Tyne, with remarks, Notes on the land and fresh water Mollusca of Great Britain, with a revised list of species, Supplement to a catalogue of the land and fresh-water testaceous Mollusca, found in the vicinity of Newcastle, A catalogue of the Mollusca of Northumberland and Durham)
- "Newcastle House That Starred in BBC Series Gets Commemorative Plaque" at newcastlemagazine.com, with photograph of Alder