Finding aid to the A. M. Strong Notebooks, 1920-1950 LA.1994.0411.02

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library

Title: A. M. Strong Notebooks

Identifier/Call Number: LA.1994.0411.02

Physical Description: 4 Volumes 4 notebooks containing listings of Mollusca taxa.

Date (inclusive): 1920-1950

Abstract: The A. M. Strong Notebooks consist of four volumes of listings of Mollusca taxa, including keys, distributional lists and species lists.

Container: 366

The four notebooks include a two-volume set of species and distributional lists, one volume on Pelecypoda, and one volume on Pacific coast turrids.

Archibald McClure Strong was an American malacologist specializing in Pacific Coast marine mollusks. Born in Westminster, California, on June 18, 1876, Strong attended public schools in Pasadena; he received his A. B. degree in chemistry from Stanford University in 1899 and worked as a mining and civil engineer, first with various mining companies and later as county surveyor and city engineer in Bishop, Inyo county; he moved to Los Angeles in 1911 and maintained a general practice as a mining and civil engineer. He married Mary Watterson in 1906. He joined the Conchological Club of Southern California in 1920. He actively collected in the 1920s in central and southern California, between 1922 and 1929, sometimes with conchologists Emery P. and Elsie M. Chase. He classified shells that had been collected by others on many expeditions including the California Academy of Sciences expedition to the Gulf of California in 1921, to Guadalupe Island, the Revillagigedos and Tres Marias in 1925; the Allan Hancock Expedition to the Galapagos Islands, 1931-1932; the Templeton Crocker Expedition of the CAS in 1932 off the west coast of Central America to Acapulco, Mexico, and the Galapagos Islands and the 1941 "Askoy" Expedition. His collaborators included Fred Baker, Ulysses S. Grant IV, G. Dallas Hanna, Leo George Hertlein, and Herbert N. Lowe. He was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Malacological Union, the California Academy of Science, and the San Diego Society of Natural History. Strong died at Balboa, California on July 14, 1951. A large part of his mollusk collection is held by the San Diego Natural History Museum.

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[Identification of item], A. M. Strong Notebooks (LA Anthony Wayne Vogdes Collection (Archives collection LA 1994.0411.02). Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.