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William Diller Matthew

American paleontologist.

Born February 19th, 1871 in Saint John.

Died September 24th, 1930 at 59 years old in San Francisco.

Occupations
palaeontologist, taxonomist, zoologist

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks