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Addison Emery Verrill
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- Born:
- February 9, 1839 Maine
- Died:
- December 10, 1926 (aged 87) Santa Barbara California
- Subjects Of Study:
- invertebrate ocean
Addison Emery Verrill, (born Feb. 9, 1839, Greenwood, Maine, U.S.—died Dec. 10, 1926, Santa Barbara, Calif.), zoologist and naturalist who, as curator of zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, developed one of the largest, most valuable zoological collections in the United States. From 1871 to 1887, while he was in charge of scientific explorations by the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Verrill found and described hundreds of new marine specimens. He specialized in invertebrates, especially worms, mollusks, corals, sponges, and starfishes, and made important technical improvements in the equipment used for collecting specimens. ...(100 of 170 words)