as Society for Science & the Public, from 1946 to 1953, and of the National Geographic Society, where he served successively as vice chairman, acting chairman, and chairman emeritus of the Committee for Research and Exploration, from 1933 until his death, in his final years as a trustee emeritus. Several taxa of birds have been named in his honor, including the Cretaceous genus Alexornis and the tanagers Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron and Buthraupis wetmorei. Insects, mammals, amphibians, mollusks, and one plant (an Argentinian cactus), as well as a bridge in Panama and the Wetmore Glacier in the Antarctic, have also been named after him. Wetmore is commemorated in the scientific names of one species and two subspecies of reptiles: Pholidoscelis wetmorei, Uromacer frenatus wetmorei, and Anolis brevirostris wetmorei. In 1953 he married Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan, who became guarantor of the American Ornithologists' Union after his death in 1978. His papers and an oral history interview are held at the Smithsonian Institution. References External links Biography at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Alexander Wetmore from the Smithsonian Institution Archives Wetmore, Alexander materials at Internet Archive Alexander Wetmore Oral History Interviews from the Smithsonian Institution Archives 1886 births 1978 deaths American ornithologists Secretaries of the Smithsonian Institution George Washington University alumni People from Sauk County, Wisconsin Tanager Expedition Zoo curators People from Glen Echo, Maryland 20th-century American zoologists