Addison Emery Verrill (1839 - 1926) was an Americanzoologist. 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...
Verrill was born in Greenwood, Maine. He studied under Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and then accepted a position as Yale University's first Professor of Zoology. He remained there for more than 40 years, teaching and serving as a curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. Greenwood is a town located in Oxford County, Maine. ... Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807-December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ...
Verrill published more than 350 papers and monographs, and described more than 1,000 species of animals.
In 1959 the Yale Peabody Museum established the Addison Emery Verrill Medal in his honour.
She wrote about 136 papers on physiology and systematics of the lower invertebrates and published technical papers on annelid and polyclad worms and on other invertebrates.
She commented in a letter: "The polyclads of Bermuda were so pretty that I could not resist collecting them and figuring out Verrill's mistakes" (quoted in Schram, p.
AddisonEmeryVerrill had been an earlier expert in invertebrate classification.
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