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Willis John Gertsch (1906 - 1998) was an entomologist specialising in arachnology. He classified a number of species, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider.
Willis John Gertsch (1906-1998) was the premier American arachnologist for half of the Twentieth Century. He was Curator of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History and later retired to Portal, Arizona in the Chiricahua Mountains. He was the author of hundreds of generic and specific names in a multitude of families and also the author of "American Spiders", as well as editor of a later revised printing of Comstock's "Spider Book." During his tenure as Curator of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History he was the usual authority quoted when any question on spiders arose.
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