Harold John Finlay

Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist. He was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901.

His main research interest was marine and non-marine malacofauna of New Zealand, both recent and fossil. He also specialised on fossil Foraminifera.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1939,[1] and was awarded the scoiety's Hector Memorial Medal in 1941.[2]

Bibliography

Many of Finlay's works were published in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand abbreviated as Trans. N.Z. Inst.

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References

  1. ↑ "The academy: D–F". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Hector Medal recipients". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 30 May 2015.

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