Harry Lee (shell collector)

Harry G. Lee was an American shell collector and physician. Over the course of his life, Lee named 36 species of Mollusca and has had 18 others named for him.{{Cite web|url=https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/private-shell-collection/|title=The man behind the world's largest private shell collection|date=June 27, 2018|website=Florida Museum}}{{Cite web|last=Pittman|first=Craig|date=September 13, 2019|title=Florida man with largest private shell collection now ready to give it away|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2019/09/13/florida-man-with-largest-private-shell-collection-now-ready-to-give-it-away/|website=Tampa Bay Times}} He was considered one of the top amateur experts in the field of mollusks.{{Cite web|last=Strickland|first=Sandy|date=February 5, 2020|title=Jacksonville physician who traveled the globe seeking shells is donating them to UF museum|url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2020/02/05/jacksonville-physician-who-traveled-globe-seeking-shells-is-donating-them-to-uf-museum/112273662/|access-date=2021-04-22|website=The Florida Times-Union|language=en-US}} He donated his extensive collection, one of the world's largest, to the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.

Lee attended Millburn High School, Williams College, and Weill Cornell Medicine. He started his medical career in 1974 and practiced internal medicine for 31 years.{{cite news |author= |date=January 10, 2024 |title=Harry G. Lee M.D. |url=https://www.jacksonville.com/obituaries/pfla0684938 |work=The Florida Times-Union |location=Jacksonville, Florida |access-date=March 27, 2024}}

Lee lived in Florida and was married with three children. He died on January 8, 2024, at the age of 83 after suffering a stroke a month earlier.

Selected publications

{{Cite book|last=Lee|first=Harry G.|url=|title=Marine shells of northeast Florida|date=2009|publisher=Jacksonville Shell Club|isbn=978-0-9671254-0-4|location=Jacksonville Beach, Florida|oclc=434869184}}
Lyons, William G., and Harry G. Lee. "Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener, 1840 (currently Triplofusus giganteus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae): the correct name for the horse conch of the southeastern United States and Mexico." The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75, no. 1 (2018): 195–203.
Lee, Harry G. "Genera of American Strombid Gastropods (Gastropoda: Strombidae) and Remarks on Their Phylogený." Veliger 49, no. 4 (2007): 256–264.
Lee, Harry G. "Partulid snails, their collectors, and a prodigious dynasty of French naturalists." American Conchologist 40, no. 1 (2012): 10–19.
Lee, Harry G. "Shelled land snails of the Calusa shell mound, Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, and of Lee County, Florida." Florida Scientist (2014): 2–14.

Harry Lee (shell collector)

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