Harold Finlay
Finlay was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901, to a family of Baptist missionaries.[1] His main research interest was marine and non-marine malacofauna of New Zealand, both recent and fossil.[2] After graduation, Finlay ran into financial hardship, living off of research grants, and occasional work as a contract consultant for oil exploration companies.[2] Finlay was appointed to the Geological Survey of New Zealand in 1937,[1] where he worked a micropaleontologist studying Foraminifera.[1] Many of Finlay's works were published in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand abbreviated as Trans.