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President of the Scientific Association of Trinidad, as well as of the Royal Victoria Institute Board. He contributed about seventy memoirs or papers between 1863 and 1913. His special interest went to paleoconchology and recent mollusks, especially the terrestrial and
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Indians. "Lechmere", as he was called, was raised by his grandparents, Richard Parkinson and Lucy (née Lechmere, daughter of
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Lechmere Guppy, R. J. (1911). "On the
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Third series of additions to the
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Guppy, R. J. Lechmere (1875). "VI.—Supplement to the Paper on West Indian
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Guppy, R. J. L. (1866). "On the Tertiary Mollusca of Jamaica".
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