The shellfish of New Zealand : an illustrated handbook

Unity Press

1937

English

Bib record

E Earle Vaile (52441)
AWMM copy 098321 inscribed on inside front cover: E. Graham Turbott, Auckland Museum, 15.9.1937. Signed on prelim. page: No. 15. AWB Powell.
AWMM copy 15552 has inscription: With the compliments of A.W.B. Powell, 26.10.1937.
AWMM copy 111264 has signature of A.W.B. Powell and 'no. 30' on flyleaf.
AWMM copy 52441 inscribed on prelim. page: E. Earle Vaile, Auckland, N.Z., Dec 38.

Arthur William Baden Powell (known throughout his life as "Baden"), was born on 4 April 1901, at Wellington, New Zealand. He studied art under Frank and Walter Wright and at the Elam School of Art. He worked as a commercial artist and lithographer for 11 years (1918 - 1929) until he was appointed to the staff of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 1929 as Conchologist and Palaeontologist. He was encouraged in his molluscan studies by Thomas F. Cheeseman and had acted as Honorary Conchologist for 13 years prior to his appointment to the staff. In 1936 Powell became Assistant Director, a capacity in which he served until his retirement in 1968. He continued his association with the Museum as Honorary Research Associate in Mollusca up until the time of his death on 1 July 1987, aged 86. Powell's malacological research interests were the New Zealand, Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic mollusca, specialising in the families Turridae, Speightiidae and Patellidae. [For further biographical details, see the 'Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum', Vol. 25, 19 December 1988. pp.1-38, and R.K. Dell's obituary in 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand', 1987-1988, Vol. 116, pp. 68-77.]

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