As daughter of American Museum of Natural History curator Richard Van Gelder, she spent periods of her childhood involved in field work with him in East Africa and in the U.S. National Parks.
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Richard Van Gelder, curator of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History, was her father.
Among his colleagues in the Mammal Department at the AMNH were Karl Koopman, Marie A. Lawrence, Guy Musser, and Sydney Anderson.
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Leslie Van Gelder, his daughter, is an archaeologist researching prehistoric Finger fluting.
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Gordon Van Gelder, his son, is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Richard Van Gelder (1928–1994), American mammalogist and museum curator
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