Its early members included Nicolás José Gutiérrez, the physician who introduced anesthesia in Cuba, Felipe Poey y Aloy, Latin America's most famous ichthyologist at the time, and the renowned physician and scientist, Carlos Finlay, who first determined that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes. (aaas.org)
But Stewart rediscovered a second species that he describes in the March issue of the journal Copeia, published by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. (sciencedaily.com)
The Smithsonian's curators have gathered digital X-rays of their collection in the book Ichthyo: The Architecture of Fish, which also features essays by oceanographer Jean - Michel Cousteau, ichthyologist Daniel Pauly, Museum of Photographic Arts director Deborah Klochko, and photo researcher Stephanie Comer. (discovermagazine.com)