American naturalist and educator, born in Gainsville, NY, on the 19th of January 1851. He graduated at Cornell University in 1872, and at the Indiana Medical College in 1875; taught at Lombard University (1872–73); Appleton (WI) Collegiate Institute (1873–74); at the Anderson School, at Penikese Island, MA (1874); in the Indianapolis High School (1874–75); professor of biology, Butler University (1875–79); professor of zoology, Indiana University (1879–85); president of Indiana University (1885–91); of Leland Stanford Junior University (1891). He published Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States (1876), and over 250 papers, largely upon the ichthyology of the United States. See also “Vivérols.”
