Nelson, George, 1876-1962

LC control no.	n 95086386
Personal name heading	Nelson, George, 1876-1962 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Found in	Images, c1995: t.p. (George Nelson) p. 6, etc. (photographer, moved to Florida in early 20th cent.) list.audubon.org, viewed Oct. 8, 2009 (George C. Nelson, botanist, zoologist, and lecturer at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology; visitor at Pelican Island wildlife refuge) Tel. call to Harvard Univ. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Oct. 8, 2009 (George Nelson (1876-1962); letterhead usage: George Nelson) Harvard Univ. president's report, 1961-62 ("George Nelson, retired Preparator-in-Chief of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, died April 25, 1962, in his eighty-seventh year. The senior retired member of the Museum staff, he joined the Museum as a preparator in 1902 at the age of 26 and became Preparator-in-Chief in 1937. An artist by temperament, skilled in the use of his hands, he devoted most of his early career to the preparation and mounting of the skeletons and hides of modern vertebrates. Later he specialized in fossil skeletons. He retired in 1946.")