her own right. In 1952 the National Academy of Sciences awarded Carr the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal. Legacy Founder and Scientific Director of Sea Turtle Conservancy (formerly Caribbean Conservation Corporation) from 1959 until his death in 1987. The Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, which covers the beaches from Melbourne Beach south to Wabasso Beach was set up in 1994 in honor of his efforts. In 1994, the Dr. Archie Carr Wildlife Refuge was established in Costa Rica in his memory. Carr's son, Archie Carr III, is a conservationist who coordinated Central American programs for the New York Zoological Society (now known as the Wildlife Conservation Society); Carr III was instrumental in establishing the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary in Belize. A book about Carr entitled The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. This book was written by Frederick R. Davis, Assistant Professor of History at the Florida State University. Carr's work is referenced in the 1985 romantic-drama film Turtle Diary. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has named its newest building after Archie and Marjorie Carr. Carr is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, Sibon carri. In 1987 the Ecological Society of America awarded Carr the Eminent Ecologist Award. Works Carr, Archie (1952). Handbook of Turtles; the Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California. Carr, Archie (1953). High Jungles and Low. Carr, Archie, and Coleman J. Goin (1955). Guide to the Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fresh-water Fishes of Florida. Carr, Archie (1963). The Reptiles (Series: LIFE Nature Library). Carr, Archie (1964). Ulendo: Travels of a Naturalist in and out of Africa. Carr, Archie (1967, 1984). So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles. (). Carr, Archie (1973). The Everglades. (Time-Life Book). Carr, Archie (1979). The Windward Road (). Carr, Archie (Marjorie Carr, editor) (1994). A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden. (). Academic genealogy Archie Carr graduated with his PhD in 1938 from the University of Florida under J.S. Rogers. His academic ancestry passes from Rogers (PhD 1929 University of Illinois), through Stephen Alfred Forbes (PhD 1884 Indiana University) (the first Chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey and a founder of aquatic ecosystem science), the eminent evolutionary biologist and ecologist David Starr Jordan (PhD 1872 Cornell), to Louis Agassiz (PhD 1829 Munich, Germany) the eminent ichthyologist, geologist, and