A. K. Fisher Papers 1827-1957 (bulk 1867-1948)

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Fisher, A. K. (Albert Kenrick), 1856-1948

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Albert Kenrick Fisher (1856-1948) was born on March 21, 1856 in Ossining, New York. He attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, graduating with medical training in 1879. He and 21 other people founded the American Ornithologists’ Union and set up studies for migration and distribution. He also founded the Branch of Economic Ornithology in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, in 1885. In 1905 he played a role in the creation of the Bureau of Biological S...

Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929

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Ornithologist; curator of birds at the U.S. National Museum. From the description of ALS : Washington, D.C., to Thomas G. Gentry, 1876 Mar. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580979 Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) was an ornithologist who collected bird specimens in Costa Rica in 1908. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_721_pid_EACP718 American ornithologist. From the descripti...

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Fisher, Anne B. (Anne Benson), 1898-1967

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Anne B. Fisher was born Evelyn Anne Benson on February 1, 1898, in Denver, Colorado. She attended the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Medical School, and trained a a nurse. After graduation in 1918, she worked as a field bacteriologist for the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry and established a clinical laboratory in Salinas in 1920. During this period she published medical papers. In 1922 she married Walter Kendrick Fisher, the director of the Hopkins Marine Laboratory in Pacif...

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

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American Ornithologists' Union

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Washington Biologists' Field Club

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Fisher, Walter K. (Walter Kenrick), 1878-1953

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Walter K. Fisher (1878-1953) was born on February 1, 1878, in Ossining, New York. He was both a biologist and an artist. He attended Stanford University and studied zoology. When he worked for the U.S. Biological Survey he decided to specialize in echinoderms, which include starfishes and sea-urchins. He published "Starfishes of the Hawaiian Islands" in 1906. He was the curator of the California Academy of Sciences from 1916-1932. He became Resident Director of a laboratory in China Point and re...

Harriman Alaska Expedition 1899

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The expedition was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Photograph, [ca. 1899]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532497 The Expedition was financed by Edward Henry Harriman as a combination pleasure cruise and scientific expedition from May to August 1899. From the description of Arctic field photographs, 1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517798 Originally proposed as a hunting expedition, Edward Harriman tr...

Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927

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Artist, naturalist. From the description of Louis Agassiz Fuertes exhibit items, 1982-1983. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 74897982 From the description of Louis Agassiz Fuertes pencil drawing, [ca.1900]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010685 Louis Agassiz Fuertes was an ornithologist and a painter of birds. He was a resident lecturer at Cornell University for several years. From the description of Louis Agassiz Fu...

Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946

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First director, United States Forest Service (1905). He changed the name of protected "forest preserves" to "national forests" and advocated a controversial "wise use" policy for the resources of the national forests, whereby a greater use of forest resources, such as tree harvests and grazing rights could be permitted. From the description of Correspondence, 1905-1945. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 40804560 Forester and governor of Pennsylvania. F...

United States. Bureau of Biological Survey

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Merriam, Clinton Hart, 1855-1942

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C. Hart Merriam was a biologist who work for the Smithsonian Institution from 1910-1939. Merriam was born December 5, 1855 in New York City. His childhood was spent in Locust Grove, Lewis County, New York. Merriam’s father introduced him to Prof. Spencer Baird who attached the seventeen year old Merriam to a government expedition, the Hayden Survey. He spent a summer collecting birds and eggs in the Yellowstone region. That year, he attended college, first at the Pingry Military School in Elizab...

Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978

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(Frank) Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), ornithologist, avian paleontologist, and science administrator, was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1945 to 1952. He was born in North Freedom, Wisconsin, the son of Nelson Franklin and Emma Amelia (Woodworth) Wetmore. He developed an early interest in birds and at the age of eight made his first field journal entry--an observation on the pelican recorded on a family vacation to Florida in 1894. His first published paper, "M...

Stone, Witmer, 1866-1939

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Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916

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Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856-1916) was an army surgeon and field naturalist. He developed an early interest in natural history, studying the flora and fauna around his home in Highland Falls, New York. Mearns was educated at Donald Highland Institute, Highland Falls, and in 1881 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In 1883, he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the Medical Corps of the Army and assigned to duty at Fort Verde, Arizona. He was transferred to Fort ...

Pinchot South Sea Expedition (1929)

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The Pinchot South Sea Expedition took place aboard the yacht "Mary Pinchot" under the leadership of the Hon. Gifford Pinchot. It departed New York City on March 31, 1929 for a cruise of about ten months and roughly 7,500 miles through the Caribbean and South Pacific Ocean. The group headed south to Key West, and then spent time on various islands throughout the Caribbean Sea before reaching Panama. From there, they traveled through the Panama Canal and then to several islands in the Pacific. The...

Lilly, Ben, 1856-1936

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Lilly was a well-known predator hunter in New Mexico and the Southwest. From the description of Ben Lilly collection, 1916-1940. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37235948 From the guide to the Ben Lilly Collection, 1916-1940, (Museum of New Mexico. Fray Angélico Chávez History Library.) ...