Harry C. Oberholser Papers 1883-1960 (bulk 1920-1945)

Bailey, Florence Merriam, 1863-1948

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65c0vjp (person)

Florence Merriam Bailey (1863-1948) was born in Locust Grove, New York during the Civil War. She devoted her life to the study and protection of birds. From her work in ornithology she authored over ten books, including several field guides to birds, and close to one hundred articles. Though interested in birds as a child, she gained recognition as a naturalist while at Smith College. Disgusted by the use of feathers and whole birds in fashion, she started the Smith College Audubon Society. Her...

Bishop, Louis B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6km0dr4 (person)

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j7887p (corporateBody)

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63599js (corporateBody)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a bureau within the Department of the Interior. Its mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. A 1940 reorganization plan in the Department of the Interior consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife was created...

American Museum of Natural History

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r31qn8 (corporateBody)

The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 to be of service to the city's public schools, advance scientific research in natural history, and to exhibit natural history objects for casual visitors. From the description of Administrative files, 1869-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513508 Museum exhibition displayed in the Museum's showcase in 1975. From the description of Cans from pressured city exhibition photographs, 1975. (Unknown). Wor...

Merriam, Clinton Hart, 1855-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67s7sj8 (person)

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...

Grinnell, Joseph, 1877-1939

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66d60p2 (person)

Biography Joseph Grinnell was born on February 27, 1877 near Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory at the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Indian Agency, where his father served as government physician. After living for a short time in Tennessee and in the Dakota Territory, the family settled in Pasadena, California in 1885. Grinnell attended school in Pasadena and received his B.A. from Throop Polytechnic Institute (now Caltech) in 1897. Grin...

Palmer, T. S. (Theodore Sherman), 1868-1955

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60c5xpn (person)

Naturalist, author and ornithologist. From the description of Papers of T. S. Palmer, 1877-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84163135 Theodore Sherman Palmer was a naturalist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture who led the first Death Valley expedition in 1891. From the description of Papers of Theodore Sherman Palmer, 1849-1954. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122559971 Theodore Sherman Palmer (1...

Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qv4p2n (person)

Charles Wallace Richmond (1868-1932) was an ornithologist who collected bird specimens in Puerto Rico in 1900. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_715_pid_EACP712 ...

United States National Museum

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nq2tfg (corporateBody)

The Act of Congress of August 10, 1846, establishing the Smithsonian Institution, empowered the Board of Regents to receive, either through donations or exchanges, new specimens for the museum of the Institution. In addition, the Secretary was authorized to discharge the duties of the "keeper of the museum." Beginning in 1841, the museum collections of the United States government had been stored in the Patent Office. Originally they were under the custodianship of the National Ins...

Cottam, Clarence, 1899-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kk9h7q (person)

Mormon author, educator, ecologist, and conservationist. He died in 1974. From the description of Clarence Cottam papers, 1924-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367553609 From the description of Papers, 1924-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79693655 From the guide to the Clarence Cottam papers, 1924-1974, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z3323v (person)

Described by Theodore Roosevelt as ". . . one of the keenest naturalists we have ever had . . .," Edward William Nelson was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He developed an interest in the outdoors around his boyhood home in New England, and in Chicago where his family moved in 1868. Shortly after enrolling in Cooke County Normal School in 1872, Nelson was invited to join Edward Drinker Cope and Samuel Garman on a fossil collecting trip to the Badlands of Wyoming. After returning to Chicago, h...

Griscom, Ludlow, 1890-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m62nfx (person)

Ornithologist and botanist, of New York, N.Y., and Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1907-1959. (Peabody Museum). WorldCat record id: 28416231 Ludlow Griscom, an ornithologist, was Research Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. From the description of Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64071759 From the guide to the Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961., (Division of ...

Keyes, Charles R. (Charles Reuben), 1871-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zw2p2d (person)

Keyes was a lifelong resident of Mount Vernon, Iowa. He was a professor at Cornell College in Mount Vernon and for a number of years directed the Iowa state archaeological survey. He published and lectured extensively on birds and the archaeology of the eastern United States. From the description of Charles R. Keyes ornithological papers, 1896-1952. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 299064873 ...

Taylor, Walter P. (Walter Penn), 1888-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6640rx8 (person)

Biologist; pioneer in the field of wildlife management. After 1909, Taylor became Asst. Biologist for the Biological Survey under the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture where he worked for 35 years in California, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and the Pacific Northwest. From the description of Taylor photographs, 1919-1950 (bulk 1927-1934). (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 42425397 Head, Texas Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, and Professor, Cl...

Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rf6x2g (person)

Bishop, Louis B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pq17dx (person)

Brandt, Herbert, 1884-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qf9vb2 (person)

Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rs2n7b (person)

Vernon Orlando Bailey (1864-1942) was born 21 June 1864 in Manchester, Michigan. He was the sixth of eight children born to Hiram and Emily (Taylor) Bailey. At an early age he and his family moved to Elk River, Minnesota, where he developed an interest in natural history. Around 1885, Bailey began sending collections of birds and mammals to Clinton Hart Merriam, Chief of the newly created Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy of the United States Department of Agriculture (in 1896 the ...

Stone, Witmer, 1866-1939

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64f2shj (person)

Lincoln, Frederick Charles, 1892-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sb57vd (person)

Ornithologist Frederick C. Lincoln was born in 1892 in Denver. He played a critical role in the study of the decline of the waterfowl population in the 1930s due to the extended drought. A formula, now referred to as the Lincoln Index and used by ornithologists to forecast waterfowl populations, gives credit to his name. Lincoln achieved many positions, including Curator of Ornithology at the Colorado Museum of Natural History, now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Section Chief of the ...

Preble, Edward Alexander, 1871-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6126vpd (person)

During the summer of 1907 Seton, accompanied by Edward A. Preble ... as assistant, made an expedition to the Barren Grounds in the vicinity of Aylmer Lake, Mackenzie District ... Their route was by way of the Athabaska River, Slave River, Great Slave Lake, and the chain of lakes northeastward to Aylmer Lake. From the description of Alberta-Mackenzie barren grounds, 1907 / [by Edward A. Preble]. [1907] (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 51318643 Edward ...

Aldrich, John W. (John Warren), 1906-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69w1h6v (person)

Todd, W. E. Clyde (Walter Edmond Clyde), 1874-1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rn49jm (person)

Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1866-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cr6wd7 (person)

Ornithologist; author of Life Histories of North American Birds and other titles; fellow and active member of American Ornithologists' Union. From the description of Arthur Cleveland Bent ornithological papers, 1880-1942. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 50008444 Bent inspecting a golden eagle's nest, California, 1929 A life-long resident of Taunton, Massachusetts, Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866-1954) was only six when his mot...

Jackson, Hartley H. T. (Hartley Harrad Thompson), 1881-1976

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61848rk (person)

Hartley H. T. Jackson (1881-1976) was a native of Milton, Wisconsin where he started his studies in zoology at age 11. In his early years he became acquainted with Ludwig Kumlien, later his college teacher, and Ned Hollister, then a Wisconsin naturalist. Following his graduation in 1904 from Milton College he taught science in Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois before taking a graduate scholarship at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his Master's degree in 1909. While at Wisconsin, Ja...

Sprunt, Alexander, 1898-1973

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sf3zgf (person)

Roberts, Thomas S. (Thomas Sadler), 1858-1946

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s76g0f (person)

Jones, Lynds, 1865-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k65kwr (person)

Oberholser, Harry C. (Harry Church), 1870-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68064p6 (person)

Ornithologist. From the description of Papers of Harry C. Oberholser, 1883-1960 (bulk 1920-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449477 Ornithologist who worked in the Fish and Wildlife Service of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior (1895-1941) and was curator of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. From the description of Papers, 1864-1963. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17725278 Harry Church Oberholser (1870-1963) w...

Pearson, T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert), 1873-1943

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61r7s1b (person)

Taverner, P. A. (Percy Algernon), 1875-1947

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60g4n3c (person)

Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65h88fq (person)

Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (1850-1930) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 3, 1850. Henshaw wanted to go to Harvard, but due to his health he was unable to go. He was invited to go on a voyage to the southern coast of Louisiana. That was where he began his career as a naturalist. He traveled to many places and became particularly interested in birds. He collected many unknown bird species in Arizona and made valuable observations. In 1880, he worked as an ethnologist at the Bureau of Ame...

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hh6mh3 (person)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60008nn (person)

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...

Van Tyne, Josselyn, 1902-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6349mx3 (person)

Ornithologist and curator of birds in the Museum of Zoology, and professor of zoology at University of Michigan. From the description of Josselyn Van Tyne papers, 1917-1957. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418664 Josselyn Van Tyne was born on May 11, 1902 in Philadelphia, PA. Following graduation from Culver Military Academy, he received his AB degree from Harvard University in 1925 and his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Michi...

Bell, W. B. (William Bonar), 1877-1949

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6795648 (person)

United States. Bureau of Biological Survey

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60g7v5w (corporateBody)

American Ornithologists' Union

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck93hg (corporateBody)

Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xf1qpq (person)

Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as the director of the Allegheny Observatory and a professory of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh). While at the Smithsonian he founded the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory....

Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ff429q (person)

Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) Cattell...

Wilson Ornithological Club.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m86w2 (corporateBody)

Kirn, A. J. (Albert J.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6st8rh3 (person)

Nice, Margaret Morse, 1883-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t3jqt (person)

Margaret Morse Nice was an ornithologist. From the description of Margaret Morse Nice papers, 1917-1968. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64071913 From the guide to the Margaret Morse Nice papers, 1917-1968, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...