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Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist, and librarian . Career. Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history.
Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837-1914) was born in New York, NY, and died in Washington, D.C.. He was a zoologist, Smithsonian librarian, Library of Congress assistant librarian, and associated with George Washington University. SIA RU000095 [SA-601].
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Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist, and librarian. Career. Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history.
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THEODORE NICHOLAS GILL. BY WILLIAM. HEALBY DAIX. The subject of this memoir was born on Broadway, New York City, below the City Hall, March 21, 1837, anf' died at Washington, D. C, September 25, 1914. He was the son of James Darrell and Elizabeth Vosburgh Gill.
Champsocephalus was first formally described as a genus in 1862 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill as he thought that its type species, Chaenichthys esox which had been described in 1861 by Albert Günther, was distinct enough to be classified in its own genus.
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- Champsocephalus, T. N. Gill, 1862
THEODORE NICHOLAS GILL, 'Master of Taxonomy' --such was the characterization by Dr. David Starr Jordan of the man whom Prof. Spencer P. Baird called the most learned, and Prof. G. Brown . Goode described as the most erudite and philosophic of American naturalists.
Gill, Theodore Nicholas. ( b. New York, N.Y., 2 I March 1837: d. Washington, D.C., 25 September 1914) ichthyology. His youthful interest in the Fulton Fish Market led Gill to a life’s work in fishes and other animals despite the preference of his father, James Darrell Gill, for his son to become a minister. His mother, Elizabeth Vosburgh Gill ...