Philip Pearsall Carpenter

Philip Pearsall Carpenter (* November 4, 1819 in Bristol, † May 24, 1877 in Montreal ) was a British Presbyterians, social reformer and Konchologe.

Life and work

Philip Pearsall Carpenter was the youngest child of the schoolmaster and Unit Aryan Lant Carpenter (1780-1840) and his wife Anna († 1856). Among his siblings were the social reformer and Philanthropistin Mary Carpenter (1807-1877) and the naturalist and physiologist William Benjamin Carpenter. From 1833 to 1836 he attended Manchester College in York Trinity College in Bristol and then to 1840. 1841 Carpenter graduated from the University of London as BA. During the same year he became a Presbyterian minister in Stand ( Lancashire ). 1846 Carpenter moved to a community in Warrington for which he worked until 1861.

In 1855 he discovered Carpenter from a dealer in Liverpool an extensive collection of shells of the recently deceased, Belgian naturalist Frederick dance that had gathered in this Mexican Mazatlan. Carpenter acquired the 14 -ton unprocessed collection for 50 pounds. He dealt with the processing of this collection the following year. A first extensive article appeared in the report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 1856. Two years later he traveled to the United States to the shell collection of the Smithsonian Institution to classify.

On October 1, 1860, he married the Hamburg native Minna Meyer. With an adopt in the United States son they settled down in 1865 in Montreal. Philip Pearsall Carpenter died of typhoid fever, leaving his extensive seashell collection the McGill College.

Writings (selection )

• Description of ( Supposed ) new species and varieties of shells, from the Californian and Mexican coasts west, Principally in the collection of Hugh Cuming. In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Part 23, 1855, pp. 228-235 (online)
• Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum. Collected by Frederick dance, Described by Philip P. Carpenter. 2 vols, London 1857 ( online).
• The mollusks of western North America embracing the second report made ​​to the British Association on this subject, with other papers, reprinted by permission, with a general index. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, Volume 252, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 1872 (online).
• Russell Lant Carpenter (ed.): Memoirs of the Life and Work of Philip Pearsall Carpenter: Chiefly Derived from His Letters. 2nd edition, C. Kegan Paul & Co., London 1880 ( online). - 1st edition, 1879.