Robert J. Russell

Robert J. Russell is listed by Project Gutenberg as the author of several public-domain scientific works on pocket gophers. Titles in its catalog include Evolution and Classification of the Pocket Gophers of the Subfamily Geomyinae, Pleistocene Pocket Gophers From San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and A New Species of Pocket Gopher (Genus Pappogeomys) From Jalisco, México.

From those confirmed titles, he appears to have worked in mammalogy and taxonomy, with a strong interest in the evolution, geographic variation, and fossil record of pocket gophers in Mexico and the American Southwest. Some works are sole-authored, while others were written with collaborators such as Rollin H. Baker.

Reliable biographical details beyond the publication record were not easy to confirm from the available sources in this search, so this overview sticks to what can be supported directly by the cataloged works themselves.