A. Hyatt Verrill

(1871 -- 1954)

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill was an American zoologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and author who wrote many books on natural history

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

SF historian/critic Everett F. Bleiler described Verrill's "lost race" stories as "more literate than most of their competition, but stodgy."

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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1871—1954

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