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4,300 | Frances Matilda Abbott (August 18, 1857 β September 21, 1939) was an American suffragist and naturalist. The first woman from Concord, New Hampshire, to receive a bachelor's degree, Abbott often wrote on suffrage for national newspapers and participated in many suffragist organizations. She also authored texts on Concord wildlife and genealogy for local audiences, leading to her inclusion on several contemporary lists of notable American women | Frances Matilda Abbott |
4,301 | William Louis Abbott (23 February 1860 β 2 April 1936) was an American medical doctor, explorer, ornithologist and field naturalist. He compiled prodigious collections of biological specimens and ethnological artefacts from around the world, especially from Maritime Southeast Asia, and was a significant financial supporter of the United States National Museum collecting expeditions.
Early life and education
Abbot was born in Philadelphia | William Louis Abbott |
4,302 | Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world.
Education and career
Ackerman received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts and Ph. D | Diane Ackerman |
4,303 | Jennifer Ackerman (born 1959) is an American author known for her ornithology books, including the bestselling book The Genius of Birds. In that book, Ackerman posits that, contrary to popular metaphors such as "bird brained," birds are actually quite intelligent and think in complex ways. Called a "peppy survey of the science of bird intelligence" by The Guardian, the book was a New York Times best seller in 2017 | Jennifer Ackerman |
4,304 | Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; December 5, 1822 β June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz. Agassiz accompanied her husband on his journey to Brazil in 1865-6 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871β2; of the second, she wrote an account for the Atlantic Monthly | Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz |
4,305 | Mary Jobe Akeley (January 29, 1878 β January 19, 1966) was an American explorer, author, mountaineer, and photographer. She undertook expeditions in the Canadian Rockies and in the Belgian Congo. She worked at the American Museum of Natural History creating exhibits featuring taxidermy animals in realistic natural settings | Mary Jobe Akeley |
4,306 | Carl Ethan Akeley (May 19, 1864 β November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American museums, most notably to the Milwaukee Public Museum, Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. He is considered the father of modern taxidermy. He was the founder of the AMNH Exhibitions Lab, the interdisciplinary department that fuses scientific research with immersive design | Carl Akeley |
4,307 | Robert Ward Allen (August 8, 1856 β August 23, 1931) was an American naturalist, duck hunter and merchant. He became the central character in John Eugene Cay Jr. 's 1958 non-fiction book Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter | Ward Allen |
4,308 | Casey Anderson is an American filmmaker, wildlife naturalist, and television presenter known for translating human relationships with the natural world and wild animals to various audiences. He has been a host and executive producer of the Nat Geo WILD channel television series, Expedition Wild and America the Wild with Casey Anderson, and for raising Brutus the Bear, a grizzly bear that he rescued and adopted as a newborn cub. Brutus and Anderson have appeared in many films, documentaries, television commercials, and live educational shows across the United States | Casey Anderson (naturalist) |
4,309 | John Gould Anthony (17 May 1804, in Providence, Rhode Island β 16 October 1877, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American naturalist who became an expert on malacology, the study of mollusks. Anthony was in charge of the conchology (now malacology) department of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology for over a decade.
Biography
His school education was slight, and was entirely discontinued when he became 12 years of age | John Gould Anthony |
4,310 | David Arora (born October 23, 1952) is an American mycologist, naturalist, and writer. He is the author of two popular books on mushroom identification, Mushrooms Demystified and All That the Rain Promises and More. | David Arora |
4,311 | Henry Philemon Attwater (28 April 1854, in Brighton β 25 September 1931, in Houston) was a British-Canadian-American naturalist and conservationist. Educated at St Nicholas Episcopal College in Shoreham, West Sussex, Attwater emigrated in 1873 from England to Ontario, Canada, where he engaged in farming and beekeeping. In 1883, a friend, John A | Henry Philemon Attwater |
4,312 | John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 β January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. He was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations, which depicted the birds in their natural habitats | John James Audubon |
4,313 | John Woodhouse Audubon (November 30, 1812 β February 21, 1862) was an American painter who was the second son of the famed ornithologist and painter, John James Audubon. Like his father, he was primarily a painter of wildlife, but also did some portraits and genre scenes of the westward migration.
Biography
He grew up in Kentucky, Ohio and Louisiana, where he attended a school taught by his mother, Lucy | John Woodhouse Audubon |
4,314 | Rebecca Merritt Smith Leonard Austin (March 10, 1832βMarch 1919, Chico, California) was a botanist and naturalist who collected and sold native plants in California and Oregon. Lomatium austiniae and Cephalanthera austiniae are named in her honor. She studied the chemistry, natural history of, and insects captured by the carnivorous pitcher plant Darlingtonia californica, and sold collected specimens to botanists and collectors | Rebecca Merritt Smith Leonard Austin |
4,315 | John Bachman (February 4, 1790 β February 24, 1874) was an American Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist who collaborated with John James Audubon to produce Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America and whose writings, particularly Unity of the Human Race, were influential in the development of the theory of evolution. He was married to the painter Maria Martin. Several species of animals are named in his honor | John Bachman |
4,316 | Herma Albertson Baggley (October 11, 1896 β August 18, 1981) was an American park ranger, naturalist, author and teacher. In 1931, she became a full-time naturalist with the National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park, the first woman to hold the role. She co-authored Plants of Yellowstone National Park, published in 1936 and still in use as of 2019 | Herma Albertson Baggley |
4,317 | Spencer Fullerton Baird (; February 3, 1823 β August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He eventually served as assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1850 to 1878, and as Secretary from 1878 until 1887 | Spencer Fullerton Baird |
4,318 | Margaret R. Wood Bancroft (July 10, 1893, Glasgow, Kentucky - August 30, 1986, San Diego, California), was an American naturalist and explorer of Baja California. She was also a social leader | Margaret Wood Bancroft |
4,319 | Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 β October 19, 1806) was an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer.
Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught | Benjamin Banneker |
4,320 | Thomas Barbour (August 19, 1884 β January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist. He was the first president of the Dexter School in 1926. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts | Thomas Barbour |
4,321 | Charles Foster Batchelder (July 20, 1856 β November 7, 1954) was an American ornithologist and naturalist. He was an early member and President of the American Ornithologists' Union, and of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. He also edited The Auk, and before it, the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club | Charles Foster Batchelder |
4,322 | Ernest Harold Baynes (1868β1925) was an American naturalist and writer. He was instrumental in bringing to public attention the near demise of songbirds and of the bison. He founded the American Bison Society, of which President Teddy Roosevelt was honorary chairman | Ernest Harold Baynes |
4,323 | Elizabeth "Libby" Beaman (1844-1934), also known by her maiden name Elizabeth Gertrude DuBois, was the first non-Aleut woman to go to the Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska. She was a naturalist, artist, mapmaker, and writer. Her year spent in Alaska produced a diary in which she wrote about her experiences during seal season | Libby Beaman |
4,324 | Roy Bedichek (June 27, 1878 β May 21, 1959) was a Texan writer, naturalist, and educator.
Biography
Early life and education
Roy Bedichek was born on June 27, 1878, in Cass County, Illinois, to parents James Madison Bedichek and Lucretia Ellen Craven. The family relocated to Falls County, Texas, in 1884 | Roy Bedichek |
4,325 | Charles William Beebe ( BEE-bee; July 29, 1877 β June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, his deep dives in the Bathysphere, and his prolific scientific writing for academic and popular audiences.
Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, Beebe left college before obtaining a degree to work at the then newly opened New York Zoological Park, where he was given the duty of caring for the zoo's birds | William Beebe |
4,326 | John L. Behler (1946 β January 31, 2006) was an American naturalist, herpetologist, author, and activist known for his work in conserving endangered species of turtles, snakes, and other reptiles. He served as curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo, part of the Wildlife Conservation Society from 1976 to 2006 | John L. Behler |
4,327 | Major Charles Emil Bendire (April 27, 1836 β February 4, 1897) was a United States Army soldier and noted ornithologist and oologist. The Bendire's thrasher is named for him.
Early life
Born Karl Emil Bender at KΓΆnig im Odenwald in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, he was the eldest of six children | Charles Bendire |
4,328 | Henry Beston (June 1, 1888 β April 15, 1968) was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1928.
Early life and work
Born Henry Beston Sheahan, he was born and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts with his parents, Dr. Joseph Sheahan and Marie Louise (Maurice) Beston Sheahan, and brother George, a doctor | Henry Beston |
4,329 | Albert Smith Bickmore (March 1, 1839 β August 12, 1914) was an American naturalist and originator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, becoming one of its founders.
Childhood
Bickmore was born in the town of St. George near Martinsville harbor, Maine, on March 1, 1839 | Albert S. Bickmore |
4,330 | John Bidwell (August 5, 1819 β April 4, 1900), known in Spanish as Don Juan Bidwell, was a Californian pioneer, politician, and soldier. Bidwell is known as the founder the city of Chico, California.
Born in New York, he emigrated at the age of 22 to Alta California (then a part of Mexico) as part of the BartlesonβBidwell Party, one of the first expeditions of American emigrants along the California Trail | John Bidwell |
4,331 | Guess Eleanor Birchett (March 28, 1881 β January 30, 1979) was an American self-trained ornithologist and naturalist. She was known as "the Bird Lady of Tempe". In 1989 she was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame | Guess Eleanor Birchett |
4,332 | H. Emerson Blake (also credited as Emerson Blake, or Chip Blake) is an ecologist, writer, and editor of many books. He was formerly the editor-in-chief at Orion Magazine, executive director of the Orion Society, and editor-in-chief at Milkweed Editions | H. Emerson Blake |
4,333 | Marcia Myers Bonta (born 1940) is an American naturalist and writer, known for her extensive writings about Pennsylvanian flora and fauna.
Biography
Marcia Bonta was born on July 11, 1940, in Camden, New Jersey. She earned a BA degree from Bucknell University in 1962, and has done extensive research on the history of women naturalists | Marcia Bonta |
4,334 | David Boynton (August 30, 1945 β February 10, 2007) was a leading expert on the natural history of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, especially on the Koke'e Forest and the Alakai Swamp and its wildlife. He was called "a voice for the Hawaiian wilderness," a "Guardian of the Koke'e Forest," and as an educator, "the window through which thousands of Hawai'i students learned about Hawaiian birds, plants, marine creatures, climate and much more. " Boynton photographed a bird now believed extinct, the Κ»ΕΚ»ΕΚ»ΔΚ»Δ (Moho braccatus) | David Boynton |
4,335 | Rex Brasher (July 31, 1869 β February 29, 1960) was an American watercolor painter and ornithologist in the vein of John James Audubon and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Brasher's 875 surviving paintings depicted 1,200 species and sub-species of North American birds in accurate detail, representing all the species and sub-species identified in the American Ornithologistsβ Unionβs Checklist of North American Birds.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, Brasher started to paint birds at the age of 16 | Rex Brasher |
4,336 | Joseph Breintnall (died 1746) was an influential American merchant and amateur naturalist. He was the first Secretary of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the sheriff of Philadelphia from 1735β1738. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his friend and collaborator, Benjamin Franklin | Joseph Breintnall |
4,337 | Steve "Wildman" Brill (born March 10, 1949) is an American forager, naturalist, environmental educator and author. He gained notoriety in 1986, when he was arrested in New York City's Central Park for eating a dandelion.
Education
Brill was a pre-med student at George Washington University | "Wildman" Steve Brill |
4,338 | Maurice Graham Brooks (June 16, 1900 β January 10, 1993) was an American educator and naturalist whose name became synonymous with the natural history of Appalachia.
Biography
Brooks was born on the family farm at French Creek, Upshur County, West Virginia, where he maintained a residence for much of the remainder of his life. His father β photographer and local historian Fred E | Maurice Brooks |
4,339 | Lester Russel Brown (born March 28, 1934) is an American environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and former president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D. C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day referred to him as "one of the great pioneer environmentalists | Lester R. Brown |
4,340 | Tom Brown Jr. (born January 29, 1950) is an American naturalist, tracker, survivalist, and author from New Jersey, where he runs the Tom Brown Jr. Tracker School | Tom Brown Jr. |
4,341 | William Harvey Brown (August 22, 1862 β April 5, 1913) was an American naturalist who later settled in Rhodesia. Whilst studying at the University of Kansas Brown volunteered with the National Museum of Natural History and took part in collecting expeditions in the US. While employed by the Smithsonian Institution he took part in an expedition to the Belgian Congo to observe the Solar eclipse of December 22, 1889 | William Harvey Brown |
4,342 | Kenneth C. Brugger (16 June 1918 β 25 November 1998) was an American naturalist and self-taught textile engineer. He is noted for discovering, with his wife Catalina Trail, the location of the overwintering sites of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus | Kenneth C. Brugger |
4,343 | William Alanson Bryan (23 December 1875 - 18 June 1942) was an American zoologist, ornithologist, naturalist and museum director.
Life and work
Bryan was born on a farm in New Sharon, Iowa. After his education, and his zoology studies, he graduated in 1896 from Iowa State College | William Alanson Bryan |
4,344 | Samuel Botsford Buckley (May 9, 1809 β February 18, 1884) was an American botanist, geologist, and naturalist. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1836.
Buckley investigated the botany of the southern United States and discovered many new species of plants and mollusks | Samuel Botsford Buckley |
4,345 | Mary Ivy Burks (December 11, 1920 β February 16, 2007) was an environmental activist who helped create and served as the first president of the Alabama Conservancy, an organization aimed at preserving Alabama's environment.
Biography
Burks was born Mary Louise Ivy in Birmingham, Alabama, to Earl and Lorene Ivy, on December 11, 1920. She obtained her degree in English from BirminghamβSouthern College in 1942 | Mary Ivy Burks |
4,346 | John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 β March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.
In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world | John Burroughs |
4,347 | Katharine Jeannette Bush (December 30, 1855 β January 19, 1937) was an American zoologist and marine biologist.
Biography
She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Connecticut. In 1901, she became the first woman to receive a Ph | Katharine Jeannette Bush |
4,348 | Amos William Butler (1 October 1860 β 5 August 1937) was an American naturalist.
Early life and education
Amos Butler was born on 1 October 1860 in Brookville, Indiana to mother Hannah Wright Butler and father William W. Butler | Amos Butler |
4,349 | Roger Andrew Caras (May 24, 1928 β February 18, 2001) was an American wildlife photographer, writer, wildlife preservationist and television personality.
Known as the host of the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Caras was the author of more than 70 books, a veteran of network television programs including Nightline, ABC World News Tonight and 20/20 before devoting himself to work as president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "Animals are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole" -Roger Caras
Biography
Early life and education
Born May 24, 1928, in the rural town of Methuen, Massachusetts, Caras was raised in a family that encouraged love of animals | Roger A. Caras |
4,350 | Charles Congden Carpenter (June 2, 1921 β January 10, 2016) was an eminent naturalist and herpetologist who has won numerous awards for excellence as an educator, researcher, and communicator.
Education
Carpenter received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1943 from Northern Michigan College of Education, now Northern Michigan University, in Marquette, Michigan. He took a U | Charles Congden Carpenter |
4,351 | Charles K. Carpenter (born in 1872 in Illinois, died in 1948) was a prominent minister in northern Illinois and a charter member of the Illinois State Academy of Science. During his years of service as a minister, his avocation was recording observations of nature and preparing study skins and life mounts of animals of the region | Charles K. Carpenter |
4,352 | William Lewis Carpenter (January 13, 1844, at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York β July 10, 1898, at Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York) was a U. S. Army Officer, naturalist and a geologist who helped document the minerals and resources of the Black Hills of South Dakota which inadvertently led to the Great Sioux War of 1876 | William L. Carpenter |
4,353 | Dr. William Marbury Carpenter (25 June 1811, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana β 4 October 1848), a noted Southern natural scientist.
Education
He was educated through private tutoring and attended the U | William Marbury Carpenter |
4,354 | Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 β April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U. S | Rachel Carson |
4,355 | Edwin Carter was a naturalist, born in upstate New York around 1830. Carter lived in the Breckenridge, Colorado area from 1860 to 1900. He originally was a placer miner and was fairly successful, but when he observed the destruction of the environment caused by hydraulic mining, he decided to collect animal and bird specimens for display before they were all gone | Edwin Carter |
4,356 | Susan Cerulean is an American naturalist and writer. She authored a book about environmental issues facing swallow-tailed kites and wrote about environmental issues in her memoir, Coming to Pass.
Biography
She has a bachelorβs degree in biology from Eckerd College and received a masters degree in horticulture from the University of Florida | Susan Cerulean |
4,357 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne (October 21, 1823 β February 23, 1883) was an American educator and naturalist who served as President of University of Wisconsin from 1867 to 1870, and President of Williams College from 1872 until his resignation in 1881. He was also the second President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (later University of Massachusetts) in 1867 and again from 1882 until his death in 1883.
Early life
Chadbourne was born in North Berwick, Maine, and attended school at Phillips Exeter Academy | Paul A. Chadbourne |
4,358 | George Kruck Cherrie (August 22, 1865 β January 20, 1948) was an American naturalist and explorer. He collected numerous specimens on nearly forty expeditions that he joined for museums and several species have been named after him.
Early life and education
Cherrie was born in Knoxville, Iowa | George Kruck Cherrie |
4,359 | George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 β February 13, 1818) was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Virginia militia in Kentucky (then part of Virginia) throughout much of the war. He is best known for his captures of Kaskaskia in 1778 and Vincennes in 1779 during the Illinois campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory (then part of the British Province of Quebec) and earned Clark the nickname of "Conqueror of the Old Northwest" | George Rogers Clark |
4,360 | Henry James Clark (July 22, 1826 β July 1, 1873) was an American naturalist.
Biography
He was born in Easton, Massachusetts, July 22, 1826. He graduated at New York University 1848; became a pupil of Asa Gray at the Cambridge botanical garden; graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard 1854; assistant to Louis Agassiz till 1863, and also for three years adjunct Professor of Zoology at the Lawrence Scientific School; Professor of Natural Sciences in Pennsylvania State College, near Bellefonte, 1866β69; Professor of Natural History in University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1869β72; Professor of Veterinary Science in Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, from 1872 until his death there July 1, 1873 | Henry James Clark |
4,361 | James Lippitt Clark (18 November 1883 in Providence, Rhode Island β 1969) was a distinguished American explorer, sculptor and scientist.
Following his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and his training at the Gorham Silver Company, he worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1908, he spent time studying wildlife in Wyoming, and then traveled to Africa with Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore to take photographs for Collier's Weekly | James L. Clark |
4,362 | William Clark (August 1, 1770 β September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri.
Along with Meriwether Lewis, Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804β1806 across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean, the first major effort to explore and map much of what is now the Western United States and to assert American claims to the Pacific Northwest | William Clark |
4,363 | Hon. George William Clinton (April 21, 1807 β September 7, 1885) was a New York lawyer, politician, judge, author, and amateur naturalist. He served as mayor of Buffalo, New York from 1842 to 1843 | George W. Clinton |
4,364 | Doris Mable Cochran (May 18, 1898 β May 22, 1968) was an American herpetologist and custodian of the American Natural Collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. , for many years | Doris Mable Cochran |
4,365 | John Aldridge "Jack" Collom (November 8, 1931 β July 2, 2017) was an American poet, essayist, and creative writing pedagogue. Included among the twenty-five books he published during his lifetime were Red Car Goes By: Selected Poems 1955β2000; Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community; and Second Nature, which won the 2013 Colorado Book Award for Poetry. In the fields of education and creative writing, he was involved in eco-literature, ecopoetics, and writing instruction for children | Jack Collom |
4,366 | Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854 β August 24, 1930) was an acclaimed author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), is now in its 24th edition. Comstock was an American artist and wood engraver known for illustrating entomological text books with her husband, John Henry Comstock including their first joint effort, The Manual for the Study of Insects (1885) | Anna Botsford Comstock |
4,367 | Eustace Robinson Conway IV (born September 15, 1961) is an American naturalist and the subject of the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. He has also been the subject of Adventures in the Simple Life by Sarah Vowell on the weekly radio show This American Life with Ira Glass. He is the owner of the 1,000-acre (4 | Eustace Conway |
4,368 | James Graham Cooper (June 19, 1830 β July 19, 1902) was an American surgeon and naturalist. Cooper was born in New York. He worked for the California Geological Survey (1860β1874) with Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Henry Brewer and Henry Nicholas Bolander | James Graham Cooper |
4,369 | Earl Lemley Core (January 20, 1902 β December 8, 1984) was a botanist and botanical educator, researcher, and author as well as a local West Virginia historian. He was founder of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club and editor of its journal, Castanea, for thirty-five years. He was a teacher and professor at West Virginia University (WVU) from 1928 to 1972 | Earl Lemley Core |
4,370 | Darius Nash Couch (July 23, 1822 β February 12, 1897) was an American soldier, businessman, and naturalist. He served as a career U. S | Darius N. Couch |
4,371 | Frank Cooper Craighead Jr. (August 14, 1916 β October 21, 2001) and John Johnson Craighead (August 14, 1916 β September 18, 2016), twin brothers, were American conservationists, naturalists, and researchers who made important contributions to the studies of falconry and grizzly bear biology. The brothers were born in Washington, D | Frank and John Craighead |
4,372 | Melville Porter Cummin (January 29, 1895 β December 1, 1980), popularly known as Mel Cummin, was a magazine illustrator and a newspaper staff artist; a notable cartoonist in the early decades of American comic strips; and a Golden Age comic book artist and art director. He was active in the Society of Friends. Cummin was also a well-known naturalist and explorer | Mel Cummin |
4,373 | Anthony Curtiss, pen name of Roy Abijah Curtiss Jr (born in Brooklyn, New York 10 May 1910, died 12 July 1981 in Karachi, Pakistan), also known in his later life as Muhammad Abdullah al-Hussein, was an American naturalist who wrote a short, and somewhat eccentric, book on the zoology of Tahiti.
Early life
Roy Abijah Curtiss Jr. was born on 19 May 1910 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Roy Abijah Curtiss (1880-1923), a wealthy business man who was the son and heir of Frank Curtiss former president of New York's Sixth Street Elevated Railway Society and Ethel Grace Quinn (1885-1974) | Anthony Curtiss |
4,374 | Charles Suydam Cutting, CBE (January 17, 1889 β August 24, 1972) was an explorer, naturalist, society figure, philanthropist, and author. He travelled around the world on numerous expeditions including the Field Museum-Chicago Daily News Abyssinian, Kelley-Roosevelts Asiatic, and Vernay-Cutting Expeditions. He was among the first Europeans to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibet and is credited with introducing the Lhasa Apso breed into the United States | C. Suydam Cutting |
4,375 | Violet Dandridge, was the pseudonym for Serena Katherine Dandridge (1878β1956), she was an American scientific illustrator, painter, naturalist, and suffragist. She was the Smithsonian Institutionβs first female scientific illustrator.
Early life
Serena Katherine Dandridge was born March 15, 1878 in her family home of "Rose Brake" in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and was raised there | Violet Dandridge |
4,376 | Philip Jackson Darlington Jr. (November 14, 1904, Philadelphia β 16 December 1983, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American entomologist, field naturalist, biogeographer, museum curator, and zoology professor. He was known for his collecting ability and his toughness and determination on field expeditions | P. Jackson Darlington Jr. |
4,377 | William Thompson Davis (1862β1945) was an American naturalist, entomologist, and historian especially associated with Staten Island in New York City. He was prominent in the borough's affairs throughout his life.
Biography
Davis was born in New Brighton, Staten Island in 1862 | William T. Davis |
4,378 | Blanche Evans Dean (June 12, 1892 β May 31, 1974) was an American naturalist, conservationist and schoolteacher.
Biography
Dean was born Viola Blanche Evans in 1892 to John James and Catherine Evans, the youngest of their twelve children. She was raised on her parents' farm in Clay County, Alabama, where she first developed an interest in wildlife | Blanche Evans Dean |
4,379 | Edgar W. Denison (August 31, 1904 β August 14, 1993) was a conservationist, amateur botanist and naturalist who was an early proponent of the value of the use of native plants in cultivated landscapes and in preserving and restoring biodiversity in natural and disturbed habitats. He provided text as well as many photographs and illustrations for the handbook, Missouri Wildflowers, published by Missouri Department of Conservation in 1972, and now in its 6th edition | Edgar W. Denison |
4,380 | Sherman Foote Denton (24 September 1856 β 24 June 1937) was an American naturalist, illustrator, specimen collector, inventor, writer, and entrepreneur. Along with his brothers Shelley Wright and Robert Winsford he started Denton Brothers Butterflies Company which sold mounted butterfly specimens. Individual butterflies were mounted on plaster under a glass frame, a technique that he patented and known as "Denton mounts" | Sherman Foote Denton |
4,381 | Nancy H. DeStefanis is an American environmental educator, field ornithologist and lecturer. She is credited for discovering and documenting the first colony of great blue herons to nest in San Francisco in 1993, and for monitoring them for the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory every year since thenβan activity that earned her the nickname of "Heron Lady of Golden Gate Park" | Nancy DeStefanis |
4,382 | John Henry Dick (May 12, 1919 β September 18, 1995) was an American naturalist and wildlife artist who specialized in birds.
Early life
Dick was born in at his parents' townhouse in Brooklyn, New York on May 12, 1919. His parents were William Karl Dick and Madeleine Talmage Force | John Henry Dick |
4,383 | William Dietrich is an American novelist, non-fiction writer, journalist, and college professor. His historical novels and thrillers have made bestseller lists and his Ethan Gage series, set during the Napoleonic wars, have sold in 28 languages. He has also written novels set in the Roman Empire, Antarctica, and Australia | William Dietrich (novelist) |
4,384 | Vladimir Dinets is an American zoologist known for his studies of Crocodilian behavior and of numerous rare animals in remote parts of the world, as well as for popular writings in English and Russian.
Education
Dinets was interested in zoology from an early age, and was a winner of all-USSR Student Biology Olympics at Moscow State University. However, due to his Jewish ancestry, he was unofficially banned from entering that university, and obtained a master's degree in biological engineering from Moscow State Institute of Radio-engineering Electronics and Automation | Vladimir Dinets |
4,385 | Brooke Dolan II (1908 β Chongqing, China, August 19 or 29, 1945) was an American adventurer and naturalist in the 1930s and 1940s. His father was Brooke Dolan, a wealthy American industrialist in Philadelphia. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant and captain | Brooke Dolan II |
4,386 | Caroline Coroneos "Carrie" Dormon (19 July 1888 β 21 November 1971) was a naturalist, ethnographer, and writer in Louisiana. She was a pioneer conservationist and was involved in the establishment of the Kisatchie National Forest and was also the first woman to work in environmental education in public schools as part of the Division of Forestry in Louisiana.
Biography
Dormon was born at "Briarwood" near Saline, Louisiana to lawyer James Alexander and Caroline Trotti | Caroline Dormon |
4,387 | Robert Douglas (April 20, 1813 β June 1, 1897) was an English American horticulturalist. Douglas also made contributions as a forestry consultant, working with Frederick Law Olmsted on several projects, including the Biltmore Estate.
Biography
Robert Douglas was born in Gateshead, England on April 20, 1813 | Robert Douglas (horticulturist) |
4,388 | Leonard Dubkin (1905-1972) was an American writer and naturalist from Chicago.
He is known for his books and newspaper columns on the subject of wildlife found in urban locations.
Early life
Leonard Dubkin was born in 1905 in Odessa, Russia Empire | Leonard Dubkin |
4,389 | Lee McGeorge Durrell (nΓ©e McGeorge; born September 7, 1949) is an American naturalist, author, zookeeper, and television presenter. She is best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband, Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him.
Biography
Lee was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and showed an interest in wildlife as a child | Lee McGeorge Durrell |
4,390 | Lewis Lindsay Dyche (March 20, 1857 β January 20, 1915) was a naturalist and also the creator of the Panorama of North American Plants and Animals, which was featured in the Kansas Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. His taxidermy work is housed at The University of Kansas' Natural History Museum in Lawrence, KS. Also at KU is the U | Lewis Lindsay Dyche |
4,391 | Elon Howard Eaton (sometimes Elon Eton; 8 October 1866 β 27 March 1934) was an American ornithologist, scholar, and author.
He was born in the Town of Collins near Springville, New York, the son of Luzerne Eaton and Sophie Newton. As a youth, he took a taxidermy course in Buffalo, New York, where he prepared wildlife he had taken in the field with his shotgun | Elon Howard Eaton |
4,392 | James W. Eike (September 29, 1911 β February 8, 1983) was a birdwatcher and former president of the Virginia Society of Ornithology. The James W | James Eike |
4,393 | Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 β July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies. At his death, he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania | Loren Eiseley |
4,394 | Gustavus Augustus Eisen (August 2, 1847 β October 29, 1940) was a Swedish-American polymath. He became a member of California Academy of Sciences in 1874 and a Life Member in 1883. In 1893, he became the 'Curator of Archaeology, Ethnology, and Lower Animals' at the academy | Gustav Eisen |
4,395 | Henry Wood Elliott (November 13, 1846 β May 25, 1930) was an American watercolor painter, author, and environmentalist whose work primarily focused on Alaskan subjects. He was the author of the 1911 Hay-Elliott Fur Seal Treaty, the first international treaty on wildlife conservation. A number of his works have an ethnographic bent, displaying aboriginal Alaskans engaging in traditional practices; some of these works are stored in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian | Henry Wood Elliott |
4,396 | Michael S. Engel, FLS, FRES (born September 24, 1971) is an American paleontologist and entomologist, notable for contributions to insect evolutionary biology and classification. In connection with his studies he has undertaken field expeditions in Central Asia, Asia Minor, the Levant, Arabia, eastern Africa, the high Arctic, and South and North America, and has published more than 983 papers in scientific journals and over 925 new living and fossil species | Michael S. Engel |
4,397 | Abby Gwen Ershow is an American nutritionist specialized in iodine nutrition, lipid metabolism, atherogenesis, and cardiovascular nutrition. She was a health science administrator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute from 1982 to 1989 and a senior nutrition scientist at the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements from 2014 to 2021.
Life
Ershow completed a B | Abby Ershow |
4,398 | Marty Essen is an American naturalist, author, photographer, and professional speaker. He has written seven books, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico, Time Is Irreverent, Time Is Irreverent 2: Jesus Christ, Not Again! Time Is Irreverent 3: Gone for 16 Seconds, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer, and Doctor Refurb.
| Marty Essen |
4,399 | Peter Farb (1929β1980) was an American author, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist.
Biography
Farb was born July 25, 1929, in New York City to Solomon and Cecelia Farb. In 1950, he graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University | Peter Farb |
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