Background
Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt was born on July 23, 1871 in New Haven. Son of Addison Emery and Flora L. (Smith) Verrill.
explorer illustrator naturalist author
Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt was born on July 23, 1871 in New Haven. Son of Addison Emery and Flora L. (Smith) Verrill.
Educated Hopkins Grammar School. Yale School Fine Arts. Special course in zoölogy under father.
Illustrated natural history department Webster’s International Dictionary, 1896. Clarendon Dictionary. Many science reports, and other publications Invented autochrome process (photography in natural colors), 1902.
Extensive explorations in Bermuda, West Indies, Guiana, Central America, Panama, 1889-1920.
Rediscovered supposedly extinct Solenodon parodoxus in Santo Domingo, 1907. Resided Dominica, British West Indies, 1903-1906, British Guiana, 1913-1917, Panama, 1917-1921.
Author of 105 books on adventure subjects natural history, travel and books for boys, latest being The Real Americans, 1954. Contributor magazines Made enthnological expeditions to Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Surinam, 1916-1928.
Archaeological explorations, Central America, 1924-1927.
Discovered remains of unknown prehistoric culture and carried on extensive excavations, Panama, 1924-1927. Engaged in making series of oil paintings of South and Central American Indians from life. 1926-1928; archaeological expeditions, Peru and Bolivia, 1928-1932.
In charge of expeditions, 1933, 34, slavaging Spanish galleon sunk in West Indies in 17th Century.
Expedition to British West Indies, 1948. Expedition to Mexico, 1953.
In 1940 established the Anhiarka experimental gardens and Natural Science Museum at site of the ancient Indian village of Anhiarka where De Soto made his first settlement in Florida, 1944, established shell business, Lake Worth, Florida Home: Route 1, Box 254, Chiefland, Florida
Married Kathryn L. McCarthy, January 21, 1892. Married second, Lida Ruth Shaw, November 11, 1944. Children: Dorothy I. (Mistress Russell Rhodes), Eric East. (deceased), Loyola K. (Mistress F. Cintron, Junior.