conchologist
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He was the first serious arachnologist and conchologist in Britain, and an expert on viticulture.
From Nature • Oct. 8, 2018
It would be a very interesting subject for a conchologist to investigate, viz., whether the species of the same genus were variable during many successive geological formations.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
Already a conchologist of forty years' standing when he came to the Museum in 1863, he devoted himself to the institution until the day of his death, twenty years later.
From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Agassiz, Louis
The next boy, we may suppose, is a conchologist, and asks me to draw a white snail-shell for him!
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John
The kind gentleman who arranged the shells according to this classification acted not in his capacity as a conchologist, but as the father of a family.
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
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