Samuel Garman
Born	(1843-06-05)June 5, 1843 Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States
Died	September 30, 1927(1927-09-30) (aged 84)[1]
Spouse	Florence Armstrong (m.1895)
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology

Samuel Walton Garman (June 5, 1843 – September 30, 1927), or "Garmann" as he sometimes styled himself,^[2] was an Americannaturalist andzoologist. He became noted as anichthyologist andherpetologist.^[2]

Garman was born inIndiana County, Pennsylvania, on 5 June 1843. In 1868 he joined an expedition to the American West withJohn Wesley Powell. He graduated from theIllinois State Normal University in 1870, and for the following year was principal of theMississippi State Normal School. In 1871, he became professor of natural sciences in Ferry Hall Seminary,Lake Forest, Illinois, and a year later became a special pupil ofLouis Agassiz.^[3] He was a friend and regular correspondent of the naturalistEdward Drinker Cope, and in 1872 accompanied him on a fossil hunting trip to Wyoming. In 1870 he became assistant director ofherpetology andichthyology at Harvard'sMuseum of Comparative Zoology. His work was mostly in the classification of fish, especially sharks, but also included reptiles and amphibians. Harvard College awarded himhonorary degrees for his scientific work, B.S. in 1898 and A.M. in 1899.^[2]

While working at Harvard, he lived inArlington Heights, Massachusetts. In 1895, he married Florence Armstrong ofSaint John, New Brunswick. They had a daughter.

• SeeCategory:Taxa named by Samuel Garman

• Garman is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Jamaican lizard,Anolis garmani.^[4]
• TheRosette skateLeucoraja garmani(Whitley, 1939) is named after him.^[5]
• Diaphus garmani, theGarman's lanternfish, is a species oflanternfish found worldwide.^[6]
• Hypostomus garmani is aspecies ofcatfish in the familyLoricariidae. It is native toSouth America, where it occurs in theSão Francisco River basin.^[7]

• Garman, Samuel (1883).On the reptiles and Batrachians of North America. Kentucky Geological Survey.doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10754.
• Garman, Samuel (1887).On West Indian Iguanidae and on West Indian Scincidae. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Vol. 19.doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11968.
• Garman, Samuel (1890).The "Gila Monster". Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Vol. 22.doi:10.5962/bhl.title.12632.
• Garman, Samuel (1892).The Discoboli. Cyclopteridæ, Liparopsidæ, and Liparididæ. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.doi:10.5962/bhl.title.13817.
• Garman, Samuel (1895).The Cyprinodont. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Vol. 19. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48520.
• Garman, Samuel (1911).The Chismopnea (chimaeroids). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Vol. 40. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.doi:10.5962/bhl.title.49087.
• Garman, Samuel (1913).The Plagiostomia (Sharks, skates, and rays). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Vol. 36. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43732.
• Garman, Samuel (1917).The Galapagos tortoises. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Vol. 30. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.doi:10.5962/bhl.title.41524.

• Summers, Adam P.; Koob, Thomas J., eds. (1997). "A biographical sketch of Samuel Walton Garman".Plagiostomia – the Sharks, Skates and Rays(PDF). Los Angeles, California: Benthic Press. Retrieved9 March 2012.
• Works by or about Samuel Garman at theInternet Archive.

• 1843 births
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• People from Indiana County, Pennsylvania

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