Alpheus hyatt verrill biography template

American novelist

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill, (23 July – 14 November ) was an American zoologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and author.

He was the son of Addison Emery Verrill, the first professor of zoology at Yale University.

He authored numerous works on natural history and science fiction.

Biography

Hyatt Verrill was born at New Haven, Connecticut.

He wrote on a wide variety of topics, including natural history, travel, radio and whaling. He participated in a number of archaeological expeditions to the West Indies, South, and Central America.

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He travelled extensively throughout the West Indies, and all of the Americas, North, Central and South. Theodore Roosevelt stated: "It was my friend Verrill here, who really put the West Indies on the map.”^{[citation needed]}

During , he served as natural history editor of Webster's International Dictionary, and he illustrated many of his own writings as well.

In ,