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'[[File:TN Gill.jpg|thumb|Theodore Nicholas Gill]] [[File:Theodore Nicholas Gill.jpg|thumb|Theodore Nicholas Gill]] '''Theodore Nicholas Gill''' (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an [[United States|American]] [[ichthyologist]], [[mammalogist]], [[malacologist]] and [[librarian]]. ==Career== Born and educated in [[New York City]] under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with [[J. Carson Brevoort]] in the arrangement of the latter's entomological and ichthyological collections before going to [[Washington D.C.]] in 1863 to work at the [[Smithsonian Institution]]. He catalogued [[mammals]], [[fishes]] and [[mollusks]] most particularly although maintaining proficiency in other orders of animals. He was librarian at the Smithsonian and also senior assistant to the [[Library of Congress]]. Gill was professor of [[zoology]] at [[George Washington University]]. He was also a member of the [[Megatherium Club]] at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] Fellow members frequently mocked him for his vanity. He was president of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] in 1897. ==Publications== Besides 400 separate papers on scientific subjects, his major publications include: * 1871. ''Arrangements of the Families of Mollusks'' 49 pp. * 1872. ''Arrangement of the Families of Mammals'' 98 pp. * 1872. ''Arrangement of the Families of [[Fishes]]'' * 1875. ''Catalogue of the [[Fishes]] of the East Coast of North America'' * 1882. ''Bibliography of the [[Fishes]] of the [[Pacific]] of the [[United States]] to the End of 1879'' * ''Reports on Zoology'' for the annual volumes of the [[Smithsonian Institution]] from 1879 ==References== {{reflist}} *Abbott, R.T., and M.E. Young (eds.). 1973. American Malacologists: A national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born between 1618 and 1900. American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia. Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia. 494 pp. *Obituary in ''The Auk,'' October 1914, Number 4. *Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887–1889 == External links == {{commons category|Theodore Nicholas Gill}} {{Wikisource|Author:Theodore Gill}} *[http://vertebrates.si.edu/fishes/ichthyology_history/ichs_colls/gill_theodore.html Smithsonian biography of Theodore Gill] *[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/gill-theodore.pdf A pdf biography of T.H. Gill] at the [[National Academy of Sciences]] webstire {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Theodore}} [[Category:American ichthyologists]] [[Category:American malacologists]] [[Category:American mammalogists]] [[Category:American librarians]] [[Category:1837 births]] [[Category:1914 deaths]] [[Category:Scientists from New York City]] [[Category:George Washington University faculty]] hehe'