About Charles Reed Laws
Lived 1894 – 1985 (aged 91). Charles Reed Laws was a New Zealand geologist and malacologist.
Charles Reed Laws (21 January 1894 – 25 February 1985) was a New Zealand geologist and malacologist, known for his work studying micromolluscs of New Zealand.
Biography
Laws was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 21 January 1894. His father was Methodist reverend Charles Henry Laws.
From 1929 to 1931, Laws became a lecturer in geography at Dunedin Teachers' Training College, which he followed by being the Lecturer in Geography and Natural Science at Auckland Training College from 1932 to 1946.
Laws was encouraged to study malacology by paleontologists Harold Finlay and John Marwick. During the 1930s and 1940s, Laws became an authority on the gastropod family Pyramidellidae, publishing 122 new descriptions for species within this family.
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New Zealand geologist and malacologist (1894–1985)
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Charles Reed Laws was born on 27 January 1894 in Auckland.
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Charles Reed Laws died on 25 February 1985.
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Charles Reed Laws was a geologist and malacologist.
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