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unusual facts about Willis J. Gertsch


Willis J. Gertsch

He was the author of hundreds of generic and specific names in a multitude of families and also the author of American Spiders, as well as editor of a later revised printing of John Henry Comstock's Spider Book. During his tenure as Curator of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History he was the usual authority quoted when any question on spiders arose.


Grass spider

Agelenopsis actuosa (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) (USA, Canada) – Common American Funnel-web Spider or Canadian Funnel-web Spider

John G. Gertsch

John G. Gertsch went to high school in Sheffield Area Middle/Senior High School (SAMSHS) in Sheffield, Pennsylvania.

Willis J. Bailey

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.


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