Gadow, Hans Friedrich (1855-1928)

Life Chronology

 born in Altkrakow, Pomerania (Polish Prussia), on 8 March 1855.
1875: begins studies in natural science at the University of Berlin
1878: Ph.D., Jena, Germany (student of Haeckel)
1880: made a research assistant in zoology at the British Museum
1882: made trustee and curator of the Strickland Foundation for Birds at Cambridge
          University's Zoology Museum
1884: made lecturer in vertebrate morphology at King's College, Cambridge;
          becomes a naturalized British citizen
1888: becomes a member of the Zoological Society of London
1891: elected to the Royal Society
1892: married Miss Clara Maud Paget
1893-1896: publishes his A Dictionary of Birds, with Alfred Newton and others
1897: publishes his In Northern Spain
1898: publishes his A Classification of Vertebrata, Recent and Extinct
1908: publishes his Through Southern Mexico
1913: publishes his The Wanderings of Animals
1920: made reader in vertebrate morphology at King's College, Cambridge
dies at Cambridge, England, on 26 May 1928.
1933: posthumously publishes The Evolution of the Vertebral Column: a
          Contribution to the Study of Vertebrate Phylogeny, with J. F. Gaskell and
          H.L. Green

For Additional Information, See:

Proceedings of The Royal Society of London, Ser B, Vol. 107(754) (1931): i-iii.
Nature, Vol. 121(3057) (1928): 874.
The Auk, Vol 45(4) (1928): 538-539.

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