into the facial reconstruction. Nature writer Donald Culross Peattie (Donald C. Peattie) includes a sketch of Kennicott's life in Peattie's memoir, entitled "The Road of a Naturalist. Peattie spent time at Kennicott's Grove during his childhood. Bibliography Kennicott, R. (1855). "Catalogue of animals observed in Cook County, Illinois". Ill. State Ag. Soc. Trans. for 1853-1854 1: 577-595. Kennicott, R. (1856). "Description of a new snake from Illinois". Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. Proc. 8: 95-96. Kennicott, R. (1859). "Notes on Coluber calligaster of Say, and a description of new species of serpents in the collection of the North Western University of Evanston, Illinois". Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1859: 98-100. Kennicott, R. (1861). "On three new forms of rattlesnakes". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 206-208. Audubon to Xanthus: The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names. Mearns and Mearns Schlachtmeyer, S. S. (2010). A death decoded: Robert Kennicott and the Alaska telegraph : a forensic investigation. Alexandria, Va: Voyage Publishing. Vasile, Ronald S. (1994). "The Early Career of Robert Kennicott, Illinois' Pioneering Naturalist." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society vol. 87: 150-70. References External links Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History page "Robert Kennicott (1835-1866): Early Smithsonian Scientific Explorer and Collector" Biography of Kennicott at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Division of Fishes page on Naturalist Collectors Robert Kennicott and Henry M. Bannister Papers, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois Robert Kennicott's Letters to Spencer F. Baird, 1853-1865 1835 births 1866 deaths American naturalists American herpetologists Explorers of Alaska History of Yukon People from Glenview, Illinois Scientists from New Orleans