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Darwin Correspondence Project

Theodore Nicholas Gill

1837–1914

American zoologist. Taught at the Columbian College (now George Washington University) from 1860; professor of zoology, 1884–1910. Librarian, Smithsonian Institution, 1862–6. Assistant librarian, Library of Congress, 1866–74. President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1897.

Source

DSB.

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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