Author:

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Subject:

Hyatt, Alpheus 1838-1902  Search this

Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology  Search this

Harvard University  Search this

Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)  Search this

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Search this

Physical description:

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portraits; Medium: Photographic print

Type:

Photographic print

Portraits

Date:

c. 1890s

Category:

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Summary:

Alpheus Hyatt, 1838-1902, was an American zoologist, who graduated from Harvard in 1862. He was a student of Louis Agassiz. From 1870, Hyatt was custodian and later curator of the Boston Society of Natural History. He also taught zoology and paleontology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1870-88) and at Boston Univ. (1877-1902). At the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology he built up a remarkable collection of fossil cephalopods; his discoveries contributed to the knowledge of their evolution. He wrote extensively on the cephalopods, sponges, and other subjects. Hyatt helped to establish the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass.

Contained within:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 71, Folder: Hyatt

Contact information:

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Topic:

Cephalopoda  Search this

Curators  Search this

Museum curators  Search this

Paleontologists  Search this

Zoologists  Search this

Standard number:

2004-63041 or SA-707

Restrictions & Rights:

No restrictions

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_11395