Samuel Garman

Samuel Garman.

Samuel Walton Garman (1843-1927) was a naturalist/ zoologist from Pennsylvania. He studied under Louis Agassiz. In 1868 he joined an expedition to the American West with John Wesley Powell. He was a friend and regular correspondent of the naturalist Edward Drinker Cope and in 1872 accompanied him on a fossil hunting trip to Wyoming. In 1873 he became assistant director of herpetology and ichthyology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. His work was mostly in the classification of fish, especially sharks, but also included reptiles and amphibians.

References

• Summers, A.P. and T.J. Koob (1997). biographical sketch of Samuel Walton Garman. In Plagiostomia - the Sharks, Skates and Rays, A.P. Summers ed., Benthic Press, Los Angeles, CA.

• Summers, A.P. (1997). A bibliography of Samuel Walton Garman. In Plagiostomia - the Sharks, Skates and Rays, A.P. Summers ed., Benthic Press, Los Angeles, CA.