John Otterbein Snyder
[1] As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology.He eventually became a zoology instructor at Stanford University and served there from 1899 until 1943.He wrote many articles and papers as well as describing several new species of sharks.In 1905, Snyder, then assistant professor of zoology at Stanford, published Notes on the fishes of the streams flowing into San Francisco Bay in Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904.This work is significant in its historical documentation of the native fishes of San Francisco Bay channels.