William Thompson (naturalist) - Works

Works

Partial list from over eighty. A complete list is found in The Natural History of Ireland (see External Links).

  • "Abstract of paper on Irish Algae, read before the Natural History Society of Belfast on January 20. 1836". The Magazine of Natural History 9: 147–151. 1836.
  • 1833 On an immature specimen of the Long-tailed Manis (Manis tetradactyla, Linn.) from Sierra Leone. Proceedings of the Zooloogical Society of London II 28.
  • 1834 Observations of some of native Mammalia, birds and fishes, including additions to the British fauna. List of land and freshwater Mollusca new to Ireland. Phil. Mag. Lond. & Edin. 5: 298.
  • 1835 Pollan of Lough Neagh. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1835, 77.
  • 1835 On the Teredo navalis and Limnoria terebrans, as at present existing in certain localities on the coasts of the British Islands. Edinb. New Phil. J. 18: 121-130.
  • 1835 On some additions to the British fauna. Proceedings of the Zoological Society London 3: 77-84.
  • 1840 Note on the occurrence at various times of the bottle-nosed whale (Hyperoodon butzkoph, Lancep.) on the coast of Ireland; and its nearly simultaneous appearance on different parts of the British coast in the autumn of 1839. Magazine of Natural History 4, 375-381.
  • 1840 Additions to the fauna of Ireland. Magazine of Natural History 5, 6-14.
  • 1840 Additions to the fauna of Ireland. Magazine of Natural History 5: 245-257.
  • with Goodsir, J. 1840 Description of Limneus involutus Harvey MS. with an account of the anatomy of the animal. Magazine of Natural History 5: 22-25.
  • 1840 Contributions towards a knowledge of the Mollusca Nudibranchia and Mollusca Tunicata of Ireland, with descriptions of apparently some new species of invertebrata. Magazine of Natural History 5: 84-102 Plate 2.Download at
  • 1841 Catalogue of the land and freshwater Mollusca of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 6: 16-34 digitised here
  • 1841 Catalogue of the land and freshwater Mollusca of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 6: 109-126
  • 1841 Catalogue of the land andfreshwater Mollusca of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 6: 194-208
  • 1841 Additions to the fauna of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 7: 477-481
  • 1842 Results of deep dredging off the Mull of Galloway, by Capt. Beechey, R.N.. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 10: 21-24.
  • 1842 Cycostoma elegans Lam. an Irish shell. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 8: 228.
  • 1843 Report on the fauna of Ireland: div. Invertebrata. Drawn up, at the request of the British Association. Rep. Meet. Br. Assoc. Advancem. Science London, 13: 245-291.
  • 1844 Additions to the fauna of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 13: 430-440.
  • 1845 Additions to the fauna of Ireland, including descriptions of some apparently new species of Invertebrata. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 15: 308-322.
  • 1846 Notice of a bottle-nosed whale Hyperoodon butzkoph, Lancep. obtained in Belfast Bay in October, 1845. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 17, 150-153.
  • 1846 Additions to the fauna of Ireland, including species new to that of Britain; with notes on rare species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 18, 310-315.
  • 1846 Additions to the fauna of Ireland, including a few species unrecorded in that of Britain; with the description of an apparently new Glossiphonia. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 18: 383-397.
  • 1847 Note on the Teredo norvegica (T. navalis, Turton, not Linn), Xylophaga dorsalis, Limnoria terebrans and Chelura terebrans, combined in destroying the submerged wood-work at the harbour of Ardrossan on the coast of Ayrshire. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 20: 157-164.
  • 1847 Additions to the fauna of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 20: 169-176.
  • 1848 Additions to the fauna of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 1: 62-65.
  • 1849 Additions to the fauna of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 3: 351-357.
  • 1851 Additions to the fauna of Ireland. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 7: 501-502.
  • 1853 Supplementary report on the fauna of Ireland. Report for the British Association for the Advancement of Science : 286-290.
  • The Natural History of Ireland. Reeve, Benham and Reeve. 1849-1851. Also published by Boehn, London.

Note.The pages Proceedings of the Zooloogical Society of London, The Magazine of Natural History and Annals & Magazine of Natural History all link to digitised versions of these works provided by Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Thompson was a Member of the Zoological Society of London and a Corresponding Member of The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and the Boston Society of Natural History.

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