William Alexander Hammond - Eponymy

Eponymy

• Hammond's disease, a form of athetosis, was first described by Hammond (in the Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System) and now bears his name. He also coined the word "athetosis".
• The Western Spadefoot Toad bears the name of "Spea hammondii". Spencer Fullerton Baird of the Smithsonian Institution named that toad after Hammond, who collected specimens for him at Fort Riley. Hammond also collected the first specimens of Thamnophis hammondii, a snake which now bears his name, and the Hammond's Flycatcher recalls his work in ornithology.