HJF
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New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist
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Male
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Birth:
22 March 1901(Cumilla, Cumilla District, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh)
Death:
7 April 1951
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Education:
University of Otago
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Biography
Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist. He was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901.
His main research interest was marine and non-marine malacofauna of New Zealand, both recent and fossil. He also specialised on fossil Foraminifera.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1939, and was awarded the scoiety's Hector Memorial Medal in 1941.