Background
AMARAL, Afrânio B was born on January 12, 1894 in Pará, Brazil.
AMARAL, Afrânio B was born on January 12, 1894 in Pará, Brazil.
Educated Colegio Paes de Carvalho, Para, 1904, Ginásio da Bahia, 1905-1910.
Assistant, Institute Butantan, Sao Paulo. 1918-1927, director since 1928. Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health, since 1925.
Director, Antivenin Institute of America, Pennsylvania. 1926-1930; president, Sao Paulo chapter. Brazilian Red Cross, 1934-1935.
1940-1942.
Member: American Society of Herpetologists and Ichthyologists, London Zoological Society, Científica Argentina, International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature.