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Thomas Bland was born on October 4, 1809, at Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Dr. Thomas Bland. His mother was a Shepard, niece of Richard Shepard, the conchologist.
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Thomas Bland was born on October 4, 1809, at Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Dr. Thomas Bland. His mother was a Shepard, niece of Richard Shepard, the conchologist.
Thomas was educated at the Charterhouse School, London, where he was a classmate of Thackeray. He then studied law.
After practising law in London for a time, Bland emigrated to Barbados (1842) and later to Jamaica, where he became interested in the Mollusca through a visit of Prof. Charles B. Adams of Amherst (1848 - 1849) and plunged at once into a study of the rich fauna of the West Indies. In 1850 he became superintendent of a gold mine at Marmato, New Granada (now Colombia), where he continued his study of shells. He settled in New York in 1852 and becoming acquainted with William G. Binney, who was just starting to complete the work of his father, Amos Binney, on The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States, etc. (1851 - 1878), the two collaborated in a number of papers on terrestrial mollusks, the most important of which was Part I of "Land and Fresh-Water Shells of North America, " published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. VIII (1869). "It systematized, expanded and put in manual form the knowledge of the land shells of this continent and placed this information within the reach of students everywhere. For many years it was the chief authority in its particular field, and even at this late date it must still be consulted by all who study this fauna. "
During his scientific career Bland produced seventy-two papers on the Mollusca of the United States and region of the Antilles, most of which were published in the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York and in the American Journal of Conchology. They dealt not only with description of species, but anatomy, classification, geographic distribution, and the development of the Mollusca as well.
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Bland was a fellow of the Royal Geological Society of London, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and of a number of other societies devoted to natural history.
