Darwin Correspondence Project

 American vertebrate zoologist . Professor of natural history, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, 1846–50. Assistant secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 1850–78; secretary, 1878–87. Instrumental in augmenting the zoological and anthropological collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum.

Sources: DAB DSB

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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 8,9