Richard George Van Gelder, was a prominent mammalogist who served as the Curator of Mammalogy for which organization, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world, abbreviated as AMNH?
Richard Van Gelder Richard George Van Gelder (December 17, 1928 – February 23, 1994) was a prominent mammalogist who served as the Curator of Mammalogy for the American Museum of Natural History in New York for more than twenty-five years.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, located at East 14th Street and Second Avenue in lower Manhattan, New York City, is one of the most prominent otolaryngology and ophthalmology hospitals in the world, providing primary inpatient and outpatient care in those specialties. Previously affiliated with New York Medical College, as of 2013 it is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as a part of the membership in the Mount Sinai Health System. Yearly, several hundred medical students compete for entrance into this institution for training but only seven each year are accepted into the ophthalmology training program and four into the otolaryngology program.