Richard Van Gelder

Career

Published works

• A Taxonomic Revision of the Spotted Skunks
• New Antrozous from the Tres Marías Islands, Nayarit, Mexico - by Richard George Van Gelder; Richard George Zweifel; Oakes Plimpton
• Marine Mammals from the Coasts of Baja California and the Tres Marías Islands, Mexico
• The Taxonomy and Status of Bats in Bermuda - by Richard George Van Gelder; David B. Wingate
• Physiological Mammalogy edited by William V. Mayer and Richard G. Van Gelder
• Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft and Richard G. Van Gelder. Illustrated by Gaetano di Palma
• The Professor and the Mysterious Box - Illustrated by Harriett
• Professor and the Vanishing Flags - Illustrated by Harriett
• Bats - Illustrated by Tom Dolan
• The Genus Conepatus : variation within a population - by Richard George Van Gelder; Hilde Kipp
• Biology of Mammals
• Monkeys and Apes - Illustrated by Walter Ferguson
• "Whale on My Back" in Curator XIII
• Animals & Man, Past, Present, Future - Illustrated by John R. Lane.
• Whose Nose Is This?
• The Natural History of Nyala, Tragelaphus Angasi in Mozambique - by José L. P. Lobão Tello and Richard G. Van Gelder
• Mammalian Hybrids and Generic Limits
• A Review of Canid Classification
• Talking to Animals: A New Look at Coloration
• Mammals of the National Parks
• State of the Mammals
• When Winter Comes
• The Gorilla Wore Pants: A Somewhat Magnified Exploration of the Ethnology and Ethology of a Natural History Museum''

  Personal life

• Gordon Van Gelder, his son, is the publisher and former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• Leslie Van Gelder, his daughter, is an archaeologist researching prehistoric Finger fluting.
• Lawrence Van Gelder, Van Gelder's brother, was a senior editor at The New York Times.