Addison Emery Verrill

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Addison Emery Verrill (1839, Greenwood, Maine - 1926, Santa Barbara, California) was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated during 1862. He then accepted a position as Yale University's first Professor of Zoology, and taught there from 1864 until his retirement during 1907. Between 1868-70 he was professor of comparative anatomy and entomology in the University of Wisconsin. From 1860 Verrill investigated the invertebrate fauna of the Atlantic coast, with special reference to the corals, annelids, echinoderms, and mollusks, and became the chief authority on the living cephalopods, especially the colossal squids of the North Atlantic.