西奥多·吉尔
生平
他生長於紐約市,由家庭教師教導。很早就顯示出對自然科學的興趣,在1863年前往華盛頓特區史密森尼學會工作之前,曾為詹姆斯·卡爾森·布雷武特整理魚類及昆蟲學筆記。他精通各類動物的分類,在哺乳動物、魚類和鳥類分類上貢獻突出。他是史密森尼學會的圖書館員,後來前往美國國會圖書館任職。
吉爾也是喬治華盛頓大學的動物學教授,亦曾是史密森尼學會大地懶俱樂部的成員,但與其他成員關係可能不好。1897年任美國科學促進會會長。
著作
除去400多張單獨的科學論述,他的主要作品有:
- 1871,Arrangements of the Families of Mollusks
- 1872,Arrangement of the Families of Mammals
- 1872,Arrangement of the Families of Fishes.
- 1875,Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America.
- 1882,Bibliography of the Fishes of the Pacific of the United States to the End of 1879.
- 自1897年起為史密森尼學會寫《動物學報告》(Reports on Zoology)
所命名的分類
(列表可能不完整)
- 11个西奥多·吉尔命名的生物分类
參考文獻
- Abbott, R.T., and M.E. Young (eds.). 1973. American Malacologists: A national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born between 1618 and 1900. American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia. Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia. 494 pp.
- Obituary in The Auk, October 1914, Number 4.
- Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887–1889
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