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See also:HYATT, See also:ALPHEUS (1838–1902) , See also:American naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Washington, D.C., on the 5th of See also:April 1838. From 1858 to 1862 he studied at Harvard, where he had See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Agassiz for his See also:master, and in 1863 he served as a volunteer in the See also:Civil See also:War, attaining the See also:rank of See also:captain. In 1867 he was appointed See also:curator of the See also:Essex See also:Institute at See also:Salem, and in 1870 became See also:professor of See also:zoology and palaeontology at the See also:Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (resigned 1888), and custodian of the See also:Boston Society of Natural See also:History (curator in 1881). In 1886 he was appointed assistant for palaeontology in the See also:Cambridge museum of See also:comparative See also:anatomy, and in 1889 was attached to the See also:United States See also:Geological Survey as palaeontologist for the Trias and See also:Jura. He was the See also:chief founder of the American Society of Naturalists, of which he acted as first See also:president in 1883, and he also took a leading See also:part in establishing the marine biological laboratories at Annisquam and See also:Woods Hole, See also:Mass. He died at Cambridge on the 15th of See also:January 1902.
His See also:works include Observations on Fresh-See also:water See also:Polyzoa (1866) ; Fossil Cephalopods of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1872) ; Revision of See also:North American Porifera (1875–1877); Genera of Fossil See also:Cephalopoda (1883) ; Larval Theory of the Origin of Cellular See also:Tissue (1884); See also:Genesis of the Arietidae (1889); and Phylogeny of an acquired characteristic (1894). He wrote the See also:section on Cephalopoda in Karl von See also:Zittel's Palaontologie (1900), and his well-known study on the fossil See also:pond snails of Steinheim (" The Genesis of the See also:Tertiary See also:Species of Planorbis at Steinheim ") appeared in the See also:Memoirs of the Boston Natural History Society in 1880. He was one of the founders and editors of the American Naturalist.
End of Article: HYATT, ALPHEUS (1838–1902)
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