Allen, JOEL ASAPH, zoologist, born in 1838 at Springfield, Mass., accompanied Agassiz to Brazil in 1865, and in 1885 was appointed curator of ornithology and mammalogy in the New York Museum, after holding a similar office at Cambridge. He is author of monographs on the buffalo, pinnipeds, rodentia, &c.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 170
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