Andrew Garrett (statistician)
Andrew Garrett may refer to: * Andrew Garrett (explorer) (1823–1887), American explorer, naturalist and illustrator * Andrew Garrett (linguist) Andrew James Garrett (born 1961) is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in Indo-European languages, and the languages of California, especially Yurok. Garrett received his Ph.D. in linguistics fr ...

Andrew Garrett (explorer)
Andrew Garrett (1823–1887), was an American explorer, naturalist and illustrator. He specialized in malacology and ichthyology. Life Garrett was born in Albany, New York; his family moved to Middlebury, Vermont, when he was a child. Considering himself a "Vermontian" throughout his life, he went to sea at age 16 (after an apprenticeship in a local iron foundry) mainly to get away and collect sea shells. Making Hawaii his home from 1857 to 1863, Garrett was initially supported and sponsored by local shell collectors, including the malacologist William Harper Pease. They admired his zeal and sense of adventure as together they found new species and developed a keen sense for scientific details. Soon they were publishing papers on the topic of conchology, for both for local and international scientists - mostly under Pease's name. Running out of funds, Garrett approached the ichthyologist Louis Agassiz, who had moved from his native Switzerland to head the new department of ...
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