Temple Prime (September 14, 1832, New York City – February 25, 1903, New York City) was an American amateur
conchologist. He studied under
Louis Agassiz at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
. He described several new species of the bivalve family
Cycladidae.
Prime was also an amateur genealogist, publishing several books on his own family history.
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Conchologists
1832 births
1903 deaths
Scientists from New York City
American genealogists
American malacologists
Historians from New York (state)
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