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countries. Although his contributions to Mesozoic and Cainozoic Palaeoconchology are widely recognised as important and sound, his work on the Jurassic Lamellibranchiata is outstanding. In addition to his systematic studies, he has made illuminating researches of an historical kind, especially in respect of the life and work of William Smith.
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Dr. L.R. Cox is one of the leading authorities on fossil Lamellibranchiate and Gastropoda. His work at the British Museum has enabled him to study material from almost all parts of the world, and the results of his researches have been published in the transactions of learned bodies in at least ten
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A survey of the Mollusca of the British Great Oolite series primarily a nomenclatorial revision of the monographs by Morris et Lycett (1851-1855), Lycett (1836) and Blake (1905-1907). Part II.// Palaeontographical Society. Monographs, 1950.– Vol. 105, №449. –
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The molluscan fauna and probable Lower Cretaceous age of the Nanutarra formation of Western Australia.// Department of National Development. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics. Bulletin, 1961.– №61.– 53 pp., 1 fig., 7
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Synopsis of the Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda of the Portland beds of England. Part I.// Proceedings of the Dorset natural-historical and archeological Society, 1929.– Vol. 50.– p. 131-202.
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The fauna of the basal shell-bed of the Portland Stone, Isle of Portland.// Proceedings of the Dorset natural-historical and archeological Society, 1925.– Vol. 46.– p. 113-172, pls. 1-5.
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Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrei Island.// Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia indica, 1936.– N. S., vol. 22, mem. №2.– ii+69 pp., 8 pls.
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in 1922. He was promoted to senior principal scientific officer in 1951, and ended his career as deputy keeper of the museum's Palaeontology Department, retiring in 1963.
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Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya.// Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology, 1965.– Suppl. 1.– 213 pp., 2 figs., 30 pls.
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Cox was born to parents who worked as government servants, in the Post Office telephone engineers' department. When he was still young, the family moved to
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The British Cretaceous Pleurotomariidae.// The Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology, 1960.– p. 385-423, 1 fig., pls. 44-60.
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Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, later the Society for the History of Natural History, 1936-1985. A quinquagenary record
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Cretaceous and Eocene fossils from the Gold Coast.// Gold Coast Geological Survey. Bulletin, 1952.– №17.– 68 pp., 5 pls.
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in 1918 whilst involved in an assault party. Upon demobilisation he read natural sciences at
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In August 1916, Cox began his war service, serving in the Experimental Section of the
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Rothstein, A.; White, E. I.; Nuttall, C. P. (1966). "Leslie Reginald Cox 1897-1965".
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Cox was made assistant keeper of the Geology Department of the
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This biographical article about a British geologist is a
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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English palaeontologist, malacologist, and geologist
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Index

Fellow of the Royal Society
Lyell Medal
Malacology
Paleontology
FRS
Islington
palaeontologist
malacologist
Harringay
Owen's School
grammar schools
Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Navy
Zeebrugge
Queens' College, Cambridge
double first
British Museum
Royal Society
Geologists' Association



Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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10.1098/rsbm.1966.0004
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73019729


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