Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902)

Along with E. Cope, the most prominent American neo-Lamarckian. Advocated a theory of "racial senility" based on the analogy of ontogeny with phylogeny, which became the bulwark of orthogenetic theories in the U.S.; his followers included C. Beecher at Yale. Founder and first editor of the American Naturalist; first president of Woods Hole laboratory.

Career:

Student, Yale College, 1856-1857
B. A., Harvard University, 1858-1862
Captain, U.S. Army, Civil War
Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Massachusetts, 1867-1870
Editor, American Naturalist, 1867-1870
Boston Society of Natural History
- Custodian, 1870-1902
- Director, Teachers' School of Science, 1870-1902
- Curator, 1881-1902
Professor of zoology and paleontology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1870-1888
Instructor in zoology and paleontology, Boston University, 1877-1902
Assistant curator (usually as volunteer), Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1886-1902

Studied under:

L. Agassiz

Students:

Colleagues:

A. Agassiz (MCZ)
J. Allen (MCZ)
A. Gray (Harvard)
H. Hagen (MCZ)
E. Mark (Harvard)
A. Packard (Peabody Academy of Science)

Key publications:

"On the paralellism between the different stages of life in the individual and those in the entire group of the molluscous order Tetrabranchiata." Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1:193-209 (1866)
The genesis of the Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim." Anniversary Memoir of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1830-1880 (1880)
"Evolution of the Cephalopoda." Science 3:122-127 (1884)

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