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 1838 - 1902

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• Prefix	Professor
  Suffix	II
  Birth	5 Apr 1838	Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA   [2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Physical Description	"genial, tolerant, a charming host, approachable, kind and considerate to young men"  [2]
  Education	Yale  [4]
  Biographical	belonged to several prestigeous societies  [2, 4]
  	– The National Academy of Sciences, member – The Geological Society of London, foreign member - The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow
  Biographical	introduced Biology into the public schools  [2]
  Biographical	was an assistant of Louis Agassiz  [2]
  Biographical	wrote some books  [4]
  	– Observations on Fresh Water Polyzoa – Genesis of Planobis at Steinheim – Genesis of the Arietidæ Phylogeny of an Acquired Characteristic
  Graduated	1862  [4]
  	Lawrence Scientific School, Havard, S.B.
  Graduated	1898  [4]
  	Brown, LL.D.
  Military Service	during the Civil War in the 47th Massassachusetts Regiment with the rank of colonel  [2, 4]
  	Who Was Who states 'captain'.
  Occupation	Cambridge, , Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  	Assistant Curator for the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy
  Occupation	curator for the Boston Society of Natural History  [4]
  Occupation	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  	instigator and director of "The Teachers School of Science"
  Occupation	naturalist, author and teacher  [2]
  	His activities covered a wide range. He was a writer of philosophical papers, organizer of societies. A Museum administrator.
  Occupation	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  	officer in the Essex Institute and Peabody Academy
  Occupation	Woods Hole, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  	President of the Marine Biological Laboratory
  Occupation	professor of Harvard University  [2]
  Occupation	Professor of Zoology and Paleontology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology  [2, 4]
  Residence	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  Died	15 Jan 1902	Cambridge, , Massachusetts, USA   [2, 4]
  Person ID	I35149	If the Legends Are True...
  Last Modified	08 Jun 2007
  Father	Alpheus Hyatt,   d. 1865, Baltimore, Baltimore (city), Maryland, USA
  Mother	Harriet Randolph King,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F12440	Group Sheet
  Family	Audella Beebe,   b. 1840, New York ,   d. Aft 1927
  Married	7 Jan 1867  [1, 3, 4]
  Children	> 1. Harriet Randolph Hyatt,   b. 25 Apr 1868, Annisquam, Essex, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown > 2. Alpheus Hyatt, III,   d. 19 Mar 1911   3. Anna Vaughn Hyatt,   b. 10 Mar 1876, Cambridge, , Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 5 Oct 1973, Redding, Redding, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   4. Verrill Hyatt,   d. Young
  Last Modified	08 Jun 2007
  Family ID	F12441	Group Sheet

• Event Map

  Event Birth - 5 Apr 1838 - Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Occupation - officer in the Essex Institute and Peabody Academy - - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Occupation - President of the Marine Biological Laboratory - - Woods Hole, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth




• Notes

  It has been said of him that he devoted his life to pure science in the best sense. He was known primarily and most distinguished for his work on Cephalopod Minds, in the study of which he as the Master mind of his day. "He got at fundamental truths. He discovered new principles and greatly expanded the principles of others." In his method of studying the living with fossil forms, classifying stages in development not only in the embrio but throughout the ife of the individual, he became the founder of a new school in evolutionary science – the "Hyatt School". Luther W. Welsh – 1928

• Sources

  [S228] Ancestral Colonial Families, by Luther W. Welsh, (Independence, Missouri: Lambert Moon Print Company, 1928, 213 pages), page 135 (Reliability: 4). page 135 [S228] Ancestral Colonial Families, by Luther W. Welsh, (Independence, Missouri: Lambert Moon Print Company, 1928, 213 pages), page 139 (Reliability: 4). page 139 [S228] Ancestral Colonial Families, by Luther W. Welsh, (Independence, Missouri: Lambert Moon Print Company, 1928, 213 pages), page 140 (Reliability: 4). page 140 [S209] Who Was Who - Vol. I (1897-1942), The A. N. Marquis Company, (Chicago, Illinois: The A. N. Marquis Company, 1942), page 615 (Reliability: 4). [S233] Who Was Who - Vol. VI (1974-1976), A. N. Marquis Company, (Chicago, Illinois: Marquis Who's Who, Inc., 1976), page 205 (Reliability: 4).

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