Samuel Stillman Berry interview : ms., 1980 May 4.

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Samuel Stillman Berry interview : ms., 1980 May 4.

Transcription of beginnings of an oral history taped by Dr. Donald R. Shasky made by Eugene V. Coan.

36 pages ; 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7164930

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Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984

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Dr. Samuel Stillman Berry was a U.S. marine zoologist who specialized in cephalopods. He received a B.S. (1909) from Stanford and his M.S. (1910) from Harvard. He then returned to Stanford for his Ph.D. work on cephalopods and got his doctorate in 1913. From 1913 until 1918, he worked as a librarian and research assistant at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research in La Jolla, California. He became a renowned malacologist, publishing 209 articles and establishing 401 mollusc taxa. Most o...