Thomas Barbour

Thomas Barbour
BornAugust 19, 1884
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
DiedJanuary 8, 1946 (1946-01-09) (aged 61)
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Known forNaturalist, author, professor, & director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University
SpouseRosamond Pierce
ParentColonel William Barbour & Julia Adelaide Sprague
RelativesSenator William Warren Barbour (R NJ) (Brother)
Thomas Barbour Memorial in Ballard Park, Melbourne, Florida

Thomas Barbour (August 19, 1884 – January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist. He was the first president of the Dexter School in 1926. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]

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