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Willis J. Gertsch

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Kaston, 1981; the volume in which this paper was published is titled "Contributions to arachnid systematics in honor of Willis J. Gertsch, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday".
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During his tenure as Curator at the American Museum of Natural History he was the usual authority quoted when any question on spiders arose.
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was published to inquire about a spider he observed. Gertsch was the one who informed White that the spider was a
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Gertsch was the premier American arachnologist for half of the 20th century. He was Curator of Arachnids at the
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B. J. Kaston: "Willis J. Gertsch: A Biography and Bibliography" in
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People associated with the American Museum of Natural History
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http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1057
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Gertsch
University of Minnesota
University of Utah
Arachnology
American Museum of Natural History
Ralph Vary Chamberlin
arachnologist
Brown recluse spider
Tooth cave spider
Montpelier, Idaho
Ralph V. Chamberlin
University of Minnesota
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History
Portal, Arizona
Chiricahua Mountains
John Henry Comstock
E. B. White
Charlotte's Web
barn spider (Araneus cavaticus)
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1057
"A book is a sneeze"
Categories
Arachnologists
American arachnologists
1906 births
1998 deaths
People associated with the American Museum of Natural History
20th-century American zoologists
University of Utah alumni

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