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Wilder (BURT GREEN an American)

BURT GREEN, an American educator and author, born at Boston, Mass., in 1841. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard in 1862, and from the Medical School in 1866. From 1862 to 1865 he was a medical cadet of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry. He was an assistant in comparative anatomy at the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy from 1866 to 1868, and from 1867 to 1910, was professor of neurology and vertebrate zoölogy at Cornell University. He was appointed emeritus professor in 1910. He made many important researches in the anatomy of the brain, and was the author of "What Young People Should Know" (1875); "Health Notes for Students" (1890); "The Brain of the Sheep" (1903). He also wrote several songs and hymns, and contributed numerous scientific papers to magazines and books of reference.