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Rev Robert Boog Watson BA FRSE (26 September 1823 – 23 June 1910) was a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected during the ''H.M.S. Challenger'' expedition to survey the world's oceans from 1873-1876. Watson also described various Opisthobranchia from Madeira. ==Life== He was born in Burntisland in Fife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. He served as Chaplain to the Highland Brigade during the Crimean War.〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf〕 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1862. In later life he is recorded as living at 19 Chalmers Street on the south side of Edinburgh.〔Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1905-6 〕 He died in Edinburgh and is buried in the south-west section of Grange Cemetery with his wife Janet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Boog Watson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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