Thomas Vernon Wollaston

Thomas Vernon Wollaston FLS (9 March 1822 – 4 January 1878) was an English entomologist and malacologist, becoming especially known for his studies of Coleoptera inhabiting several North Atlantic archipelagoes.

Wollaston supported the theory that continental lands had once extended outward farther to encompass some of the island groups he studied.

Wollaston was a frequent correspondent with the geologist Charles Lyell and their letters are in the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Library.

Material can also be found Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Wollaston also wrote many short, and some lengthy, papers on North Atlantic archipelago Coleoptera.