Barton Warren Evermann (October 24, 1853 – September 27, 1932) was an American

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 35,800 species of fish had been described as of March 2 ...

Early life and education

Evermann was born in

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in 1853. His family moved to Indiana while he was still a child and it was there that he grew up, completed his education, and married. Evermann graduated from

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in 1886.

Career

For 10 years, he served as teacher and superintendent of schools in

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and

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. While teaching in Carroll County, Indiana Evermann met fellow teacher Meadie Hawkins. They married on October 24, 1875, and had a son, Toxaway Bronte (born 1879) and a daughter, Edith (born 1894). He was professor of biology at the Indiana State University in Terre Haute from 1886 to 1891. He lectured at

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in 1893–1894, at

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in 1900–1903, and at

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in 1903–1906. In the early 20th century, as director of the

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, he promoted research on the Revillagigedo Islands off the

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coast of Mexico. Mount Evermann on Socorro Island, the highest peak of the archipelago, was named in his honor. A species of lizard, '' Anolis evermanni'', is named in his honor.Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. . ("Evermann", p. 86). In 1888, Evermann entered the service of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, became an ichthyologist in 1891, had charge of the division of scientific inquiry in 1903–1911, and from 1910 to 1914, was chief of the Alaska Fisheries Service. Evermann was

fur seal Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae. They are much more closely related to sea lions than Earless seal, true seals, and share with them external ears (Pinna (anatomy ...

commissioner in 1892 and became chairman of the fur seal board in 1908. Evermann died in

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, aged 78.

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