Edgar Albert Smith

Edgar Albert Smith (29 November 1847 – 22 July 1916) was a British zoologist and malacologist.

His father was Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and assistant keeper of zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury. and 1884. He was an editor of Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London in 1904–1916, and at the time of his death.

From Africa The molluscan faunas of the African Great Lakes also claimed his attention, and formed the subject of a presidential address before the Malacological Society of London, in which no support was given to the views of Mr. John Edmund Sharrock Moore, who regarded the gastropods of Lake Tanganyika as representing forms that had their origin in marine Jurassic times. His works about freshwater snails of Africa include a number of papers; new taxa described by Smith include:

1877 Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712–722. Plates 74–75. Melanoides turritispira (E. A. Smith, 1877) Melanoides pupiformis (E. A. Smith, 1877) Melanoides polymorpha (E. A. Smith, 1877) Melania simonsi E. A. Smith, 1877 – it is considered as a synonym of Melanoides nodicincta (Dohrn, 1865), but it may be a separate species.

1880 Smith E. A. (1880). "On the shells of Lake Tanganyika and of the neighbourhood of Ujiji, central Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 344–352. Plate 31. Limicolaria martensiana (E. A. Smith, 1880)

Ennea lata E. A. Smith, 1880 Ennea ujijiensis E. A. Smith, 1880 Tiphobia E. A. Smith, 1880 Neothauma E. A. Smith, 1880 Neothauma tanganyicense E. A. Smith, 1880 Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)6: 425–430. Limnotrochus E. A. Smith, 1880 Limnotrochus thomsoni E. A. Smith, 1880 Unio thomsoni E. A. Smith, 1880 is a synonym of Grandideriera burtoni (Woodward, 1859)

1899 Curvella nyasana E. A. Smith, 1899

1901 Gulella (Molarella) ugandensis (E. A. Smith, 1901)

From Madagascar Smith E. A. (1882). "A contribution to the Molluscan fauna of Madagascar". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882: 375–390. plates 21–22. Madagasikara johnsoni (E. A. Smith, 1882) ...

From Borneo Smith E. A. (1904). "Description of a new species of Opisthostoma from Borneo". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6: 105. Opisthostoma beddomei E. A. Smith, 1904

From New Zealand Potamopyrgus jenkinsi (E. A. Smith, 1889) is a synonym of Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843)

Mr. Smith had some slight connection with geological work, as he was appealed to on more than one occasion to determine molluscan remains found in the post-Pliocene deposits of South Africa, when the majority of the species could be referred to recent forms.