Alpheus Hyatt
Alpheus Hyatt was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.Biography
Alpheus Hyatt II was born in Washington, D.C. to Alpheus Hyatt and Harriet Randolph Hyatt. He briefly attended the Maryland Military Academy and Yale University, and after graduating from Harvard University in 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for the Civil War, emerging with the rank of captain.
, where Hyatt set up his marine biology laboratory
After the war he worked for a time at the Essex Institute, and Alpheus Hyatt III.Publications
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