Jerome Henry Kidder
1842–89
American physician and naturalist. BA, Harvard, 1862. MD, Maryland, 1866. Assistant surgeon in the US Navy, 1866–76; surgeon, 1876–84. Surgeon and naturalist to the transit of Venus expedition to Kerguelen Island, 1874–5; after which he spent a year at the Smithsonian Institution studying and publishing on the material obtained. In charge of the naval laboratory, later the Museum of Hygiene, in Washington from 1879.
Source
Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington 11 (1892): 480–8
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