A. M. (Albert Moore) Reese

Born in 1872 and active well into the twentieth century, Albert Moore Reese was an American zoologist whose published work included studies of the American alligator and books such as An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology and The Alligator and Its Allies. His writing suggests a scientist interested in careful observation and in explaining animal life in a way students could follow.

Reese was closely associated with West Virginia University, where archival records describe him as a longtime zoology professor. Records from the Marine Biological Laboratory also place him at West Virginia University as a professor of zoology in the 1920s and as head of the department in the early 1930s.

He died in 1965. Archival descriptions of his papers show a lively range of interests beyond formal teaching and research, including correspondence, clippings, published reprints, and photographs from spelunking trips, which helps round out the picture of a working scientist with wide curiosity.