Thomas Hale Streets (November 20, 1847 – March 3, 1925) was an American naturalist. He served as a surgeon in the

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from 1872 and retired in 1909 as the Director of the Navy Hospital in

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He was a veteran of the

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.''Journal of the American Medical Association'', Vol. 84, No. 15; April 11, 1925 He died in 1925 of

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. His works include ''Contributions to the Natural History of the Hawaiian and Fanning Islands and Lower California'' (1877).

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* * 1847 births 1925 deaths American biologists {{US-biologist-stub