— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. Otto Fabricius was born in the year 1744, though the exact date and location is obscure. He was sent to Greenland in 1768, and remained there five years. In that time he amassed a huge store of collections, and took ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. French civil servant and scientist (Baron) Charles Athanase Walckenaer was born in Paris n 1771, though the exact date is not known. He studied at Oxford and Glasgow, afterward entering employment in the French civil service. In 1793, at the ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. Paleontologist, geologist, and glaciologist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born in Môtier, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, on 28 May 1807. He spent his formative years attending school first at home, then at the secondary school at Bienne, and ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. French naturalist Joseph Paul Gaimard was born 1n 1796, in France. Little is known of his childhood and formal education. Between 1826 and 1829, he and Jean René Constant Quoy served as naturalists on voyages carried out by the ships ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. American scientist Joseph Henry was born on 17 December 1797, in Albany, New York. His parents were poor Scottish immigrants (William and Ann Alexander Henry), and because his father died while Joseph was quite young, he was sent to live ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. American geologist, physician, explorer, and author John Strong Newberry was born 22 December 1822, in Widnsor, Connecticut. He spent his early years in the Connecticut Western Reserve (the land claimed by Connecticut in the Northwest Territory, in what is today ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland on 17 December 1835, Alexander Emanuel Agassiz — known today as an American scientist and engineer — emigrated to the United States in 1849 at the age of 14, when the elder Agassiz accepted a professorship ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. The American naturalist William Stimpson was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on Valentine’s Day, 14 February 1832. He was the son of Herbert Hathorne Stimpson, and Mary Ann Devereau Brewer (who died while Stimpson was quite young). On his father’s side ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. American naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird entered this world on 3 February 1823, in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1841, at the age of 18 — one year after graduating from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania — he spent 21 ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall was born in Högestad, Sweden, on 22 December 1801. His early life and his personal and family history are not well known. We know he attended Lund University (in the city of Lund, in Southern ...