Nathan Everett Pearson (1895–1982) was an American ichthyologist. He was a student of Carl H. Eigenmann at

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. He traveled on the

Mulford Expedition The Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Basin was a scientific expedition to the Amazon conducted in 1921. It was organized by Henry Hurd Rusby, who at age 64, was a well known explorer, a professor at Columbia University, and a staff membe ...

to the Amazon. He collected 6,000 specimens and discovered 25 new species.

Books

* The fishes of the eastern slope of the Andes 1924 (83 pp.) * The fishes of the Beni- Mamoré and Paraguay basins 1937 * The fishes of the Atlantic and Pacific slopes near

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, Peru 1937

References

1895 births 1982 deaths American ichthyologists University of Indianapolis alumni 20th-century American zoologists {{US-zoologist-stub