About John Adam Ryder
Lived 1852 – 1895 (aged 42–43). John Adam Ryder was an American ichthyologist and zoologist.
John Adam Ryder (February 29, 1852 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania – March 26, 1895), was an American zoologist and embryologist. He worked for the United States Fish Commission from 1880 to 1886 and a Professor of Comparative Embryology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1886 to 1895.
He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1886.
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American ichthyologist and embryologist
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John Adam Ryder was born in 1852 in Franklin County.
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John Adam Ryder died in 1895.
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John Adam Ryder was an ichthyologist and zoologist.
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