Wirt Robinson

Colonel Wirt Robinson (16 October 1864 – 19 January 1929) was an American army officer, naturalist, and served as a professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology at the U. S. Military Academy. He also served briefly as a professor of military science at Harvard University. A Venezuelan opossum species ''Marmosa robinsoni'' was described from his collections and named after him. Provided by Wikipedia