Samuel Garman

Samuel Walton Garman (* 1843 in Indiana County ( Pennsylvania), † 1927 in Plymouth, Massachusetts) was an American herpetologist and ichthyologist.

Garman left early in his parents' home, worked for the Union Pacific Railroad, fought Indians, and drove to the railroad workers to provide them with meat.

In 1868 he participated in the mountains of Colorado on a led by John Wesley Powell expedition. Garman followed Powell when he taught geology at the State University of Illinois. He studied with Louis Agassiz in 1872 and received a diploma. With Edward Drinker Cope, he was a friend and accompanied him in 1872 on a trip to Wyoming to collect fossils. With Louis Agassiz he undertook an expedition to the Strait of Magellan on board the Hassler.

Since 1873, he worked at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. His work mostly concerned the classification of fish, especially sharks, but also reptiles and amphibians.