Alpheus Hyatt

Summary

Alpheus Hyatt, 1838-1902, was an American zoologist, who graduated from Harvard in 1862. He was a student of Louis Agassiz. From 1870, Hyatt was custodian and later curator of the Boston Society of Natural History. He also taught zoology and paleontology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1870-88) and at Boston Univ. (1877-1902). At the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology he built up a remarkable collection of fossil cephalopods; his discoveries contributed to the knowledge of their evolution. He wrote extensively on the cephalopods, sponges, and other subjects. Hyatt helped to establish the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass.

Subject

• Hyatt, Alpheus 1838-1902
• Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Harvard University
• Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 71, Folder: Hyatt

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1890s

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Curators
• Paleontologists
• Zoology
• Museums
• Cephalopods
• Cephalopoda
• Museum curators
• Zoologists

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Portraits

ID Number

2004-63041 or SA-707

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portraits; Medium: Photographic print

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