biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1823–91)
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| biography:
| Zoologist, palaeontologist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a trained medical doctor and professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania (1853–91). A scientist of unusual range, he published a classic anatomical text and important works on parasitology and protozoa. In addition he is regarded (along with Edward Drinker Cope and O C Marsh) as a founder of American vertebrate palaeontology. Dismayed by his colleagues' contentiousness, however, he abandoned that field after publishing his major work, ‘The Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska’ (1869). |
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