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Last Name Verrill

Given Name Alpheus Hyatt

alt. Names A. H. V. ; A. Hyatt Verrill / Hyatt Verril ; pen name: Ray Ainsbury ;

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Year born 1871 in New Haven, CT

Year died 1954

Place of death Chiefland, FL

Father's occupation zoologist Addison Emery Verrill (1839-1926)

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Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Strange Reptiles and their stories. How to distinguish reptiles from batrachians. Deaf reptiles, flying reptiles of the past, snakes in the jungle. Turtles, tortoises and terrapins. The interesting side of the least known and least understood of all living creatures (London: George G. Harrap and Company Limited, 1937) ; Edward Henri Harriman (1848-1909) ; natural history editor of Webster's International Dictionary ;

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Techniques natural, herpetological, and zoological drawing

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Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpheus_Hyatt_Verrill ;

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 1834 ;

other Further Places of Activity: West Indies, and all of the Americas, North, Central and South. Rather known as author of children's books and fictious novels. In 1902, Verrill invented the autochrome process of natural-color photography.

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