George Henry Perkins
American naturalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Henry Perkins was an American naturalist. He was the state entomologist and geologist for Vermont. Biography He was educated at the Knox Academy, Galesburg, Illinois, and at Yale, where he graduated in 1867, and in 1869 received the degree of Ph.D. there for postgraduate studies. In 1869 he was appointed as professor of natural history in the University of Vermont, and in 1898 he became dean of the natural science department. Beginning in 1880, he held the office of state entomologist of Vermont. In 1895, he left that post to become the state geologist. He devoted considerable study to the archaeology of the Champlain Valley, concerning which he wrote numerous articles for periodicals and the transactions of scientific societies of which he was a member. He has also lectured on natural history with success in various places.
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- Observations on the fauna of the rocks at Fort Cassin, Vermont, with descriptions of a few new species. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 3, article 2. (13)
- Report of the Entomologist. (3)
- Tertiary lignite of Brandon, Vermont, and its fossils (3)
- On an Ancient Burial-Ground in Swanton, VT (3)
- THE ABORIGINAL USE OF BONE IN VERMONT. (1892) (2)
- The Flying Squirrel. (1873) (2)
- CORAL FORMATIONS. (2)
- Descriptions of new species of Silurian fossils from near Fort Cassin and elsewhere on Lake Champlain. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 9, article 11. (2)
- Coral Reef Formation. (1894) (2)
- Archaeology of Vermont (1881) (2)
- Some Relics of the Indians of Vermont (1871) (2)
- The forest tent caterpillar (Clisiocampa [Malacosoma] disstria). (1)
- Insects injurious to the American elm. (1)
- A preliminary list of the birds found in Vermont / by George H. Perkins ; assisted by Clifton D. Howe. (1)
- On a skeleton of a whale in the provincial museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia ; with notes on the fossil cetacea of North America (1)
- SECTION H.--ANTHROPOLOGY. (1896) (0)
- The Stone Ax in Vermont (1886) (0)
- Perkins, George H. 23 Dec 1873 (1873) (0)
- Notice of a recent landslide on Mount Passaconaway [New Hampshire] (1870) (0)
- Notes on the Geodes of Illinois (1871) (0)
- RELATION OF VERMONT ARCHAeOLOGY TO THAT OF THE ADJACENT STATES. (1880) (0)
- The Aboriginal Use of Bone in Vermont (1892) (0)
- Perkins and Howe's Preliminary List of the Birds of Vermont (0)
- The Winooski or Wakefield Marble of Vermont (1885) (0)
- Vermont Botanical Club, Summer Meeting (0)
- The Stone Ax in Vermont. I. Celts (1885) (0)
- Archaeology of the Champlain Valley (1879) (0)
- THE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. (0)
- The Vegetation of the Illinois Lowlands (1875) (0)
- Molluscan fauna of New Haven, by George H. Perkins (review). (0)
- Hygiene of House Plants (1876) (0)
- Aboriginal Remains in the Champlain Valley, Second Paper (0)
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