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ALPHEUS HYATT (1838–1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 26 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALPHEUS HYATT (1838–1902)  ,
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American naturalist, was born at Washington, D.C., on the 5th of
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April 1838 . From 1858 to 1862 he studied at Harvard, where he had Louis Agassiz for his master, and in 1863 he served as a volunteer in the
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Civil War, attaining the rank of captain . In 1867 he was appointed curator of the Essex Institute at
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Salem, and in 1870 became professor of zoology and palaeontology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (resigned 1888), and custodian of the Boston Society of Natural
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History (curator in 1881) . In 1886 he was appointed assistant for palaeontology in the Cambridge museum of
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comparative anatomy, and in 1889 was attached to the
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United States
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Geological Survey as palaeontologist for the Trias and Jura . He was the chief founder of the American Society of Naturalists, of which he acted as first president in 1883, and he also took a leading
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part in establishing the marine biological laboratories at Annisquam and Woods Hole, Mass . He died at Cambridge on the 15th of
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January 1902 . His
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works include Observations on Fresh-
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water
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Polyzoa (1866) ; Fossil Cephalopods of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1872) ; Revision of North American Porifera (1875–1877); Genera of Fossil
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Cephalopoda (1883) ; Larval Theory of the Origin of Cellular Tissue (1884); Genesis of the Arietidae (1889); and Phylogeny of an acquired characteristic (1894) . He wrote the section on Cephalopoda in Karl von Zittel's Palaontologie (1900), and his well-known study on the fossil pond snails of Steinheim (" The Genesis of the
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Tertiary
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Species of Planorbis at Steinheim ") appeared in the
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Memoirs of the Boston Natural History Society in 1880 . He was one of the founders and editors of the American Naturalist .

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