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2,500 | Guy L. Fleming (May 27, 1884 – May 15, 1960) was an American naturalist whose conservation work led to the founding of Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, now a 2000-acre protected coastal area of La Jolla, San Diego. The Torrey pine, Pinus torreyana, is the rarest pine species in the United States | Guy Fleming |
2,501 | Stephen Alfred Forbes (May 29, 1844 – March 13, 1930) was the first chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, a founder of aquatic ecosystem science and a dominant figure in the rise of American ecology. His publications are striking for their merger of extensive field observations with conceptual insights. Forbes believed that ecological knowledge was fundamental for human well being | Stephen Alfred Forbes |
2,502 | Mulford Bateman Foster (December 25, 1888 – August 28, 1978) was a botanist known by many as the "Father of the Bromeliad" as he was instrumental in the discovery and introduction of many new species of Bromeliad to the United States. He also devoted his life to hybridizing and contributed widely to the knowledge of the plant species. He was a man of many talents including naturalist, explorer, writer, photographer, artist, horticulturist and a well-respected landscape architect in Florida | Mulford B. Foster |
2,503 | Richard "Aukcoo" Fowler (1948–2016) was an American wilderness guide, naturalist, and former U. S. Army Ranger based in Iquitos, a city in the Peruvian Amazon | Richard Fowler (naturalist) |
2,504 | William Franklin Frakes (1858-1942) was an American rancher, naturalist, adventurer, and writer.
The son of pioneers Samuel H. T | William Franklin Frakes |
2,505 | George Dwight Franklin (1888 – 1971) was an American artist, taxidermist, naturalist, museum curator, and costume designer for early Hollywood films.
Personal life
Dwight Franklin was born on January 28, 1888, in New York City. He married Mary C | Dwight Franklin |
2,506 | Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 Ithaca, New York – August 22, 1927 Unadilla, New York) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon.
Biography
Early life
Fuertes was born in Ithaca, New York, and was the son of Puerto Rican astronomer and civil engineer Estevan Fuertes and Mary Stone Perry Fuertes. His father was the founding professor of the School of Civil Engineering at Cornell University, and for many years served as the dean of the college | Louis Agassiz Fuertes |
2,507 | William Gambel (June 1823 – December 13, 1849) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, and botanist from Philadelphia. As a young man he worked closely with the renowned naturalist Thomas Nuttall. At the age of eighteen he traveled overland to California, becoming the first botanist to collect specimens in Santa Fe, New Mexico and parts of California | William Gambel |
2,508 | Ashley Gary is an American science communicator and co-organizer for #BlackBirdersWeek.
Early life
Gary became interested in birds after watching Sir David Attenborough's "Life of Birds. " As a child, Gary recalls loving wildlife and considering a career related to nature by the time she entered sixth grade | Ashley Gary |
2,509 | Thomas George Gentry (February 28, 1843 – 1905) was an American educator, ornithologist, naturalist and animal rights writer. Gentry authored an early work applying the term intelligence to plants.
Biography
Gentry was born in Holmesburg area of Philadelphia | Thomas G. Gentry |
2,510 | William Hamilton Gibson (October 5, 1850 – July 16, 1896) was an American illustrator, author and naturalist.
Biography
Gibson was born in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, of an old, distinguished New England family; one of his great-great-grandfathers was the jurist Richard Dana (1699–1772), who was the great-grandfather of the famous author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. The financial failure and in 1868 the death of Gibson's father, a New York broker, put an end to his studies in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and made it necessary for him to earn his own living | William Hamilton Gibson |
2,511 | John Davidson Godman (20 December 1794 – 17 April 1830) was an American physician and naturalist. He taught anatomy at a number of early American medical institutions including at Philadelphia (precursors of the Philadelphia School of Anatomy), Ohio and Cincinnati while also writing on a range of topics. He described several fossil species | John Davidson Godman |
2,512 | Luther Chase Goldman (November 2, 1909 – January 12, 2005) was an American naturalist and wildlife photographer. Best known for his photographs of endangered species of birds, he was chief photographer of the U. S | Luther Goldman |
2,513 | Daniel Goodman (20 May 1945 – 14 November 2012) was an American professor specializing in the fields of ecology, population biology, and Bayesian statistics. He was the founder and director of the Environmental Statistics Group in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University.
Biography
Goodman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and, as a child, moved with his family to Tel Aviv, Israel where he attended high school and entered military service | Daniel Goodman |
2,514 | Gregory Walter Graffin (born November 6, 1964) is an American singer and evolutionary biologist. He is most recognized as the lead vocalist and only constant member of punk rock band Bad Religion, which he co-founded in 1980. He embarked on a solo career in 1997, when he released the album American Lesion | Greg Graffin |
2,515 | Charlotte Hilton Green (17 October 1889 – 26 March 1992) was a writer and naturalist, environmentalist, educator and clubwoman. She was born in Dunkirk, New York, but moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1920, where she lived most of her life. She was the author of classic works about birds in the natural environment of the American South, a columnist who wrote a nature column, "Out of doors in Carolina" for The News and Observer for 42 years | Charlotte Hilton Green |
2,516 | Josiah Gregg (19 July 1806 – 25 February 1850) was an American merchant, explorer, naturalist, and author of Commerce of the Prairies, about the American Southwest and parts of northern Mexico. He collected many previously undescribed plants on his merchant trips and during the Mexican–American War, for which he has often been credited in botanical nomenclature. After the war he went to California, where he reportedly died of a fall from his mount due to starvation near Clear Lake on 25 February 1850, following a cross-country expedition which fixed the location of Humboldt Bay | Josiah Gregg |
2,517 | Sarah Elizabeth Pratt Grinnell (May 9, 1851 – July 6, 1935) was an American writer, clubwoman, and naturalist, based in Pasadena, California.
Early life
Sarah Elizabeth Pratt was born in Brooks, Maine, the daughter of Joseph Howland Pratt and Martha Eunice Hanson Pratt. Her parents were Quakers | Elizabeth Grinnell |
2,518 | George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B. A | George Bird Grinnell |
2,519 | John Thomas Gulick (March 13, 1832 – April 14, 1923) was an American missionary and naturalist from Hawaii. He was one of the pioneers of modern evolutionary thinking based on his studies of Hawaiian snails of the genus Achatinella. He was among the first to describe the formation of species through geographic separation of breeding populations | J. T. Gulick |
2,520 | Martha Conger Neblett Hagar (June 14, 1886 – November 24, 1973), known as Connie Hagar, was an American birdwatcher and naturalist whose observations were valued by professional ornithologists, particularly her early observations of hummingbirds on the Texas coast.
Childhood and personal life
Born Martha Conger Neblett in Corsicana, Texas, Hagar was the first of three children born to Robert Scott and Mattie Yeater Neblett. Her father was mayor at the time of her birth and was by profession a lawyer, and her mother was the daughter of Reverend A | Connie Hagar |
2,521 | Albert David Hager (November 1, 1817 – July 29, 1888) was an American geologist, librarian and historian.
Biography
Born and raised in Chester, Vermont, Hager received a common school education. In 1856, he was appointed assistant naturalist of Vermont | Albert David Hager |
2,522 | Reuben Haines III (February 8, 1786 – October 19, 1831) was a Quaker farmer, brewer, abolitionist, scientist, ornithologist, meteorologist, firefighter, philanthropist, and educational reformer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Haines was a founder and first president of the Philadelphia Hose Company, the first organization in the United States devoted to fighting fires by pumping water through a leather hose. He was a founding member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, served as the corresponding secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 17 years (1814–1831), and made significant early contributions to the museum collection | Reuben Haines III |
2,523 | Samuel Stehman Haldeman (August 12, 1812 – September 10, 1880) was an American naturalist and philologist.
During a long and varied career he studied, published, and lectured on geology, conchology, entomology and philology. He once confided, "I never pursue one branch of science more than ten years, but lay it aside and go into new fields | Samuel Stehman Haldeman |
2,524 | Ansel F. Hall (May 6, 1894 in Oakland, California – March 28, 1962) was an American naturalist. He was the first Chief Naturalist and first Chief Forester of the United States National Park Service | Ansel Franklin Hall |
2,525 | Louis Joseph Halle Jr. (17 November 1910, New York City – 13 August 1998, Geneva, Switzerland) was an American naturalist, author, U. S | Louis J. Halle Jr. |
2,526 | Frances Hamerstrom (December 16, 1907 – August 29, 1998) was an American writer, naturalist and ornithologist known for her work with the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin, and for her research on birds of prey. Hamerstrom was a prolific writer, publishing over 100 professional papers and 10 books on the prairie chicken, harriers, eagles, and other wildlife topics. Some were translated into German | Frances Hamerstrom |
2,527 | John Hance (1837-09-07 - 1919-01-06, 1919) is thought to be the first non-Native American resident of the Grand Canyon, US. He opened the first tourist trail, today known as Old Hance Trail, into Grand Canyon in 1884, well before his mining activities began. "Captain" John Hance was said to be one of the Grand Canyon's most colorful characters, and it had been declared by one early visitor that "To see the canyon only and not to see Captain John Hance, is to miss half the show | John Hance |
2,528 | Michael Harwood (1934, in Boston – 24 November 1989, in San Diego) was a naturalist, environmentalist, and author. Harwood received his secondary education from The Putney School in Vermont and graduated from Harvard University in 1956. He became the third husband of the author Mary B | Michael Harwood (author) |
2,529 | Adolphus Lewis Heermann (October 21, 1821 – September 27, 1865) was an American doctor, naturalist, ornithologist, and explorer. He travelled throughout the U. S | Adolphus Lewis Heermann |
2,530 | Patrick Miller Hemingway (born June 28, 1928) is an American wildlife manager and writer who is novelist Ernest Hemingway's second son, and the first born to Hemingway's second wife Pauline Pfeiffer. During his childhood he travelled frequently with his parents, and then attended Harvard University, graduated in 1950, and shortly thereafter moved to East Africa where he lived for 25 years. In Tanzania, Patrick was a professional big-game hunter and for over a decade he owned a safari business | Patrick Hemingway |
2,531 | Arlo Hanlin Hemphill (born October 7, 1971) is an American wilderness advocate. His educational background is in marine biology. Hemphill is a Fellow National of the Explorers Club and has been listed in Nature (Myers et al | Arlo Hemphill |
2,532 | Junius Henderson (April 1865 – November 4, 1937) was an American lawyer, judge, curator, and amateur malacologist who was the first Curator (a position eventually equivalent to Director) of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, of which he is considered to be the founder. He has been described as “a giant of natural history in early-day Colorado” who “cast an enormous intellectual umbra. ”
Early life and education
Born in Marshalltown, Iowa, on April 30, 1865, Henderson was a ninth-generation American | Junius Henderson |
2,533 | Clifton Fremont Hodge (16 October 1859 – 1949) was an American professor of physiology who worked at Clark University. An educator and a keen experimental biologist, he took great interest in natural history, animal behavior, and public understanding of biology, taking an active role in public debates on vivisection, experimentation on animals, conservation, and evolution. He opposed a bounty offered for specimens of the last few passenger pigeons which was eventually withdrawn | Clifton F. Hodge |
2,534 | Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the East India Company Museum in London.
Early life
Horsfield was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania | Thomas Horsfield |
2,535 | William Davenport Hulbert (1868–1913) was an American naturalist and writer of fiction.
Career
Born William Davenport Hulbert in 1868 on Mackinac Island, Michigan and lived for a while on the upper peninsula of Michigan in the Taquamenon River area. He was privately educated and did not marry | William Davenport Hulbert |
2,536 | Robert Leroy “Bob” Hunt (b. 1933) is a fisheries biologist. He grew up in McFarland, Wisconsin, on Lake Waubesa | Robert L. Hunt |
2,537 | Terrence N. Ingram is an American author and activist, who lives in Apple River, Illinois.
He is best known for his books on the bald eagle, the Eagle Nature Foundation, and his work in rebuilding the bald eagle population to remove it from the threatened species lists | Terrence Ingram |
2,538 | Terri Raines Irwin (née Raines, born July 20, 1964) is an American-Australian conservationist, television personality, author and zookeeper who is the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland. She is the widow of Steve Irwin.
Born in Oregon, she began working for an independent animal rehabilitation center for injured predator mammals at the age of 22 while working for her family's trucking business | Terri Irwin |
2,539 | Edmund Carroll Jaeger, D. Sc. , (January 28, 1887 – August 2, 1983) was an American biologist known for his works on desert ecology | Edmund Jaeger |
2,540 | James Mortimer Southwick (July 10, 1846 - June 3, 1904) was an American naturalist and educator who lived in Providence. He established a natural history store and founded the periodical Random Notes on Natural History (1884–86). After selling off his natural history store in 1896 he served as a curator of the Roger Williams Park Museum and served as a State Entomologist | James Mortimer Southwick |
2,541 | Francis Lee Jaques (September 28, 1887 – July 24, 1969) was an American wildlife painter. Jaques hunted and trapped with his father and connected with editors and writers from major hunting magazines. While still a teenager, Jacques paid ten dollars to buy a taxidermy shop in Aitkin, Minnesota | Francis Lee Jaques |
2,542 | John Clarkson Jay (September 11, 1808 – November 15, 1891) was an American physician and notable conchologist as well as one of the original founders of New York Yacht Club. He was the grandson of Founding Father John Jay.
Early life and education
Jay was born on September 11, 1808, in New York City | John Clarkson Jay |
2,543 | Genevieve Estelle Jones (May 13, 1847 – August 17, 1879) was an American amateur naturalist and artist, known as "the other Audubon". Jones was inspired by the work of John James Audubon to illustrate a book identifying nests and eggs of the 130 species of birds that nested in Ohio. She died having completed only five illustrations, and the book, Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio, was published posthumously | Genevieve Estelle Jones |
2,544 | Bill Jordan (born 1944), more formally William R. Jordan III, is an American botanist and journalist who has played a leading role in the development and critique of ecological restoration as a means of developing an environmentalism that is philosophically more coherent, psychologically more productive, politically more robust, and ecologically more effective. His critique has had a significant influence on environmentalism in the United States and abroad | William R. Jordan III |
2,545 | Stephen M. Katz (born August 11, 1953) is an American veterinarian, business owner and politician from Mohegan Lake, New York. He formerly served as a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 94th Assembly District, including parts of Westchester and Putnam counties | Steve Katz (politician) |
2,546 | Obi Kaufmann (born 1973) is an American naturalist, writer, and illustrator. He is the author of The California Field Atlas, a guide to the state's ecology and geography. The book features hundreds of his watercolor paintings of maps, wildlife, and other aspects of nature | Obi Kaufmann |
2,547 | Charles Augustus Keeler (October 7, 1871 – July 31, 1937) was an American author, poet, ornithologist and advocate for the arts, particularly architecture.
Biography
Early life
Charles Keeler was born on October 7, 1871 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He moved to Berkeley with his family in 1887 | Charles Keeler |
2,548 | Charles Kellogg (October 2, 1868 – September 5, 1949) was an American vaudeville performer who imitated bird songs, and later a campaigner for the protection of the redwood forests of California. He was born on a ranch in Susanville, California and grew up in the 1870s observing the animals and birds of the forests and learning outdoor skills. He constructed a mobile home, called the "Travel Log", out of a redwood tree and drove it around the country to raise awareness of the plight of the California forests | Charles Kellogg (naturalist) |
2,549 | Jenny Kendler (born 1980, New York City) is an American interdisciplinary environmental artist, activist, naturalist & wild forager who lives and works in Chicago. For the past 15 years her work has attempted to "re-story" the relationship between humanity and the natural world through projects on climate change, the biodiversity crisis, and de-centering the human in order to re-enchant our relationship to the natural world. She often collaborates with scientists and, in her work, bridges the gap between art, activism and ecology | Jenny Kendler |
2,550 | Caleb Burwell Rowan Kennerly (2 March 1830 – 6 February 1861) was an American physician and naturalist who worked with the Smithsonian Institution and served on the Pacific Railroad Survey as a surgeon-naturalist.
Kennerly was born in White Post, Virginia to Reverend Thomas Kennerly and Ann Susan Carnegy. He went to Dickinson College, Carlisle and graduated in 1849 | Caleb B. R. Kennerly |
2,551 | Robert Kennicott (November 13, 1835 – May 13, 1866) was an American naturalist and herpetologist. Chronic illness kept Kennicott out of school as a child. Instead, Kennicott spent most of his time outdoors, collecting plants and animals | Robert Kennicott |
2,552 | Frederick Courtland Kenyon (November 22, 1867 – January 11, 1941) was an American zoologist and anatomist best known for his research into the anatomy of the insect brain. In 1896, he published a paper in which he first described the neurons in the mushroom bodies of the honey bee. Later, the same neurons were discovered in other insects and were called Kenyon cells | Frederick C. Kenyon |
2,553 | Catherine "Kay" Kerr (née Spaulding; 1911 – 2010) was a pioneer in environmentalism. She, along with friends Sylvia McLaughlin and Esther Gulick, founded the Save San Francisco Bay Association in 1961 which eventually became Save The Bay. The three friends also founded the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the first coastal protection agency in America | Catherine Kerr (environmentalist) |
2,554 | Donald M. Kerr (1946 – February 4, 2015) was an American wildlife biologist and conservationist. He founded the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon | Donald M. Kerr (conservationist) |
2,555 | John Francis Kieran (August 2, 1892 – December 10, 1981) was an American author, journalist, amateur naturalist and radio and television personality.
Early years
A native of The Bronx, Kieran was the son of Dr. James M | John Kieran |
2,556 | Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) is an American Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
She is the author of numerous scientific articles, and the books Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013). An audiobook version was released in 2016, narrated by the author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
2,557 | Jared Potter Kirtland (November 10, 1793 – December 10, 1877) was a naturalist, malacologist, and politician most active in the U. S. state of Ohio, where he served as a probate judge, and in the Ohio House of Representatives | Jared Potter Kirtland |
2,558 | Gilbert Clarence Klingel (1908–1983) was a naturalist, boatbuilder, adventurer, photographer, author, inventor, contributor to the Baltimore Sun, for a time affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and a curator and charter member of the Natural History Society of Maryland. He is best known for his book about the Chesapeake Bay, The Bay, which won the John Burroughs Medal in 1953.
Books and articles
Inagua, The Ocean Island, and BASILISK shipwreck
Born in 1908, Klingel built his first boat when he was 20 | Gilbert Klingel |
2,559 | Samuel Kneeland (1 August 1821, in Boston, Massachusetts – 27 September 1888, in Hamburg, Germany) was a naturalist of the United States.
Biography
He graduated from Harvard in 1840, and got a medical degree there in 1843. At Harvard, he received the Boylston Prize for his thesis on “Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever,” and again, in 1844, for his essay on “Hydrotherapy | Samuel Kneeland (naturalist) |
2,560 | Ora Willis Knight (15 July 1874 – 11 November 1913) was an American naturalist who studied both plants and animals. He served as the state mineralogist for Maine from 1903 until his death. Knight was born in Bangor, Maine, to George Willis and Nellie Ada (born Blood) Knight | Ora Willis Knight |
2,561 | Eugene Nicolas Kozloff (26 September 1920 – 4 March 2017) was an American marine biologist and botanist at Shannon Point Marine Center on Fidalgo Island, Washington. He was an emeritus professor of the Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, and is best known for writing field guides for the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States.
Field guides
Kozloff, E | Eugene N. Kozloff |
2,562 | John Krider (February 17, 1813 – November 12, 1886) was an American gunsmith and ornithologist who operated a sporting goods store on the northeast corner of Second St. and Walnut St. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for much of the 19th century | John Krider |
2,563 | Joseph Wood Krutch (; November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970) was an American author, critic, and naturalist who wrote nature books on the American Southwest. He is known for developing a pantheistic philosophy.
Biography
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he was educated at the University of Tennessee and received a Ph | Joseph Wood Krutch |
2,564 | Michael Kudish is an author, railroad historian, forest historian, botanist, and retired emeritus professor. He received his Ph. D | Michael Kudish |
2,565 | Adam Kuhn (28 November 1741 – 5 July 1817) was an American physician and naturalist, and one of the earliest professors of medicine in a North American university.
Formative years
Kuhn was born in Germantown, Province of Pennsylvania, a son of German immigrant parents. He studied medicine under his father, Dr | Adam Kuhn |
2,566 | Frank Haak Lattin (August 17, 1861 – May 23, 1937) was an American physician, naturalist, and politician from New York.
Life
Lattin was born on August 17, 1861, in Gaines, New York, the son of Joseph Wood Lattin and Mary Haak. Lattin graduated from Albion High School in 1882 | Frank H. Lattin |
2,567 | John Eatton Le Conte, Jr. (sometimes John Eatton LeConte or John Eaton Leconte) (February 22, 1784 – November 21, 1860) was an American naturalist. He was born near Shrewsbury, New Jersey, the son of John Eatton Le Conte and Jane Sloane Le Conte | John Eatton Le Conte |
2,568 | Daniel S. Lehrman (June 1, 1919 – August 27, 1972) was an American naturalist, animal psychologist, ornithologist and comparative psychologist.
Notability
Lehrman was notable for his contributions to the study of animal behavior, studies of the reproductive cycle of the ring doves, behavioral endocrinology and an influential educator | Daniel S. Lehrman |
2,569 | Robert Stell Lemmon (born 26 June 1885 in Englewood, New Jersey; died 3 March 1964 in Wilton, Connecticut), often Robert S. Lemmon in publications, was an American writer and naturalist. He wrote and lectured on domestic dogs, gardening, wildlife, wild flowers and trees | Robert Stell Lemmon |
2,570 | Charles William Leng (6 April 1859 – 24 January 1941) was an American naturalist and historian especially associated with Staten Island, New York, where he was the borough historian from 1923 until the 1930s.
Leng was an internationally known entomologist who co-founded the Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences with William T. Davis | Charles W. Leng |
2,571 | Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fourteen languages and has sold more than two million copies. Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation | Aldo Leopold |
2,572 | Richard Levins (June 1, 1930 – January 19, 2016) was a Marxist biologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who researched diversity in human populations. Until his death, Levins was a university professor at the Harvard T. H | Richard Levins |
2,573 | Graceanna Lewis (August 3, 1821 – February 25, 1912) was an American naturalist, illustrator, and social reformer. An expert in the field of ornithology, Lewis is remembered as a pioneer female American scientist as well as an activist in the anti-slavery, temperance, and women's suffrage movements.
Early years and education
Lewis was born on August 3, 1821,on a farm near West Vincent Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania | Graceanna Lewis |
2,574 | Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark.
Their mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase, establish trade with, and sovereignty over the natives near the Missouri River, and claim the Pacific Northwest and Oregon Country for the United States before European nations. They also collected scientific data, and information on indigenous nations | Meriwether Lewis |
2,575 | William Joseph Long (3 April 1867 – 1952) was an American writer, naturalist and minister. He lived and worked in Stamford, Connecticut as a minister of the First Congregationalist Church.
As a naturalist, he would leave Stamford every March, often with his son, Brian, and two daughters, Lois and Cesca, to travel to "the wilderness" of Maine | William J. Long |
2,576 | John Alden Loring (March 31, 1871 – May 8, 1947) was a mammalogist and field naturalist who served with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, the Bronx Zoological Park, the Smithsonian Institution and numerous expeditions collecting specimens in North America, Europe and Africa. A voluminous and careful traveling collector, Loring was recognized early in his career for 900 specimens collected, prepared and sent to the United States National Museum over a three-month period during an 1898 expedition through Scandinavia and northwestern Europe. Loring's work and professional relationships spanned several continents focusing on collecting and documenting species of mammals | John Alden Loring |
2,577 | Alice Lounsberry (6 November 1868 – 21 November 1949, both in New York City) was an American botanist and author active in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Some sources give her birth year as 1872. ) She worked closely with the Australian botanical artist Ellis Rowan, publishing three books with her as illustrator | Alice Lounsberry |
2,578 | John Madson (1923 in Ames, Iowa – April 19, 1995 in Alton, Illinois) was a naturalist, conservationist, journalist, and freelancer who worked in the field of outdoor writing. Over time his work concentrated on the celebration of the vanished tallgrass prairie ecosystems of the U. S | John Madson |
2,579 | Ronald Magill (born February 28, 1960) is an American wildlife photographer and the communications director of the Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens. Magill also makes regular television appearances across local South Florida networks and has won five Emmy Awards for his work on the nature documentary programs; Dreams of Alaska, The Amazon & Beyond, "Alligator Love," and Dreams of the Rain Forest. Magill was born in New York City, New York, but moved to Perrine, Florida at the age of 12, where he later attended Miami Palmetto High School and obtained an associate's degree at the University of Florida | Ron Magill |
2,580 | Francis Mason (April 2, 1799 – 3 March 1874), American missionary and a naturalist, was born in York, England. His grandfather, also Francis Mason, was the founder of the Baptist Society in York, and his father, a shoemaker by trade, was a Baptist lay preacher there.
Early life
After working with his father as a shoemaker for several years, he emigrated in 1818 to the United States, and in Massachusetts was licensed to preach as a Baptist in 1827 | Francis Mason |
2,581 | Martha Ann Maxwell (née Dartt 21 July 1831 – 31 May 1881) was an American naturalist, artist and taxidermist. She helped found modern taxidermy. Maxwell's pioneering diorama displays are said to have influenced major figures in taxidermy history who entered the field later, such as William Temple Hornaday and Carl Akeley (the father of modern taxidermy) | Martha Maxwell |
2,582 | Charles Johnson Maynard (May 6, 1845 – October 15, 1929) was an American naturalist and ornithologist born in Newton, Massachusetts. He was a collector, a taxidermist, and an expert on the vocal organs of birds. In addition to birds, he also studied mollusks, moss, gravestones and insects | Charles Johnson Maynard |
2,583 | Edward Avery McIlhenny (March 29, 1872 – August 8, 1949), son of Tabasco brand pepper sauce tycoon Edmund McIlhenny, was an American businessman, explorer, bird bander and conservationist. He established a private wildlife refuge around his family estate on Avery Island and helped in preserving a large coastal marshland in Louisiana as a bird refuge. He also introduced several exotic plants into Jungle Gardens, his private wildlife garden | Edward Avery McIlhenny |
2,584 | Charles Leslie McKay (April 21, 1855 – April 19, 1883) was an American naturalist and explorer.
McKay was born at Appleton, Wisconsin. He studied under David Starr Jordan at Appleton Collegiate Institute, Butler University and Indiana University, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Science | Charles McKay |
2,585 | Sylvia Cranmer McLaughlin (December 24, 1916 – January 19, 2016) was an American pioneer in environmentalism. She, along with Kay Kerr and Esther Gulick, founded the Save San Francisco Bay Association, which eventually became Save the Bay.
Early life and education
Sylvia Cranmer was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of George E | Sylvia McLaughlin |
2,586 | Theodore Luqueer Mead (February 23, 1852 – May 4, 1936) was an American naturalist, entomologist and horticulturist. As an entomologist he discovered more than 20 new species of North American butterflies and introduced the Florissant Fossil Beds in Colorado to the wider scientific world. As a horticulturist, he is best known for his pioneering work on the growing and cross-breeding of orchids, and the creation of new forms of caladium, bromeliad, crinum, amaryllis and hemerocallis (daylily) | Theodore Luqueer Mead |
2,587 | William Butts Mershon (January 16, 1856 – July 12, 1943) was an American author and businessman. He led a number of businesses and served as Mayor of Saginaw, Michigan.
Biography
Mershon was born on January 16, 1856, to Augustus Hull Mershon and his wife Helen (born Johnson) | William Butts Mershon |
2,588 | Kathleen Meyer (born 7 December 1942) is a contemporary American outdoor writer whose first work, How To Shit in the Woods was published in 1989. Her writing is characterized by the use of humor and irreverence. She has two published works in print: her warmly welcomed outdoor guide How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art and her Wild West memoir Barefoot Hearted: A Wild Life Among Wildlife | Kathleen Meyer |
2,589 | Harriet Mann Miller (pen names Olive Thorne and Olive Thorne Miller; 25 June 1831 – 25 December 1918) was an American author, naturalist, and ornithologist. She was one of the first three women raised to elective membership in the American Ornithologists' Union. Miller wrote stories for leading magazines | Harriet Mann Miller |
2,590 | Enoch Josiah "Joe" Mills (July 23, 1880 – October 3, 1935) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach, college athletics administrator, author, naturalist, and hotelier. He served as the head football coach at Fort Worth University from 1904 to 1906, Baylor University from 1908 to 1909, and the University of Colorado Boulder from 1918 to 1919.
Early life and athletics career
Mills was born and raised on farm near Pleasanton, Kansas | Enoch J. Mills |
2,591 | Enos Abijah Mills (April 22, 1870 – September 21, 1922) was an American naturalist, author and homesteader. He was the main figure behind the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park.
He traveled throughout the Rocky Mountains for years, communing with animals rather than killing them for food or safety | Enos Mills |
2,592 | Charles Sedgwick Minot (December 23, 1852 – November 19, 1914) was an American anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.
Life
Charles Sedgwick Minot was born December 23, 1852, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His mother was Catharine "Kate" Maria Sedgwick (1820–1880) and father was William Minot II (1817–1894) | Charles Sedgwick Minot |
2,593 | Henry Davis Minot ( (listen) MY-not; August 18, 1859 – November 14, 1890) was a Massachusetts ornithologist and railroad executive.
Henry was born at his family's estate, Woodbourne in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. He was the fourth of five sons born to William and Katherine Maria (Sedgwick) Minot | Henry Minot |
2,594 | Samuel Latham Mitchill (August 20, 1764 – September 7, 1831) was an American physician, naturalist, and politician who lived in Plandome, New York.
Early life
Samuel Mitchill was born in Hempstead in the Province of New York, the son of Robert Mitchill and his wife, Mary Latham, both Quakers. He was sent to Scotland and graduated in 1786 from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with an M | Samuel L. Mitchill |
2,595 | David Mizejewski (born September 15, 1975) is a naturalist, television personality and a spokesperson for the National Wildlife Federation. He frequently appears as a wild life expert on talk shows such as Good Morning America, Conan,Today and The Wendy Williams Show.
Early life
David Mizejewski graduated from Emory University in 1997 with a degree in Human and Natural Ecology | David Mizejewski |
2,596 | Mark Moffett (born 7 January 1958) is a tropical biologist who studies the ecology of tropical forest canopies and the social behavior of animals (especially ants) and humans. He is also the author of several popular science books and is noted for his macrophotography documenting ant biology.
Early life and education
Moffett was born in Salida, Colorado, where his father was a Presbyterian minister | Mark W. Moffett |
2,597 | Sarah Preston Monks (1841–1926) was an American naturalist, educator, scientific illustrator, and poet, based for much of her career in San Pedro, California. Monks was the first zoology instructor at Los Angeles State Normal School, a precursor to the University of California, Los Angeles, where she taught for over 20 years, and published on diverse topics including reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and marine biology.
Early life and education
Sarah Preston Monks was born in Cold Spring, New York, the daughter of John Monks and Sarah Charlotte Monks (née Jolly) | Sarah P. Monks |
2,598 | Sy Montgomery (born February 7, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany) is an American naturalist, author and scriptwriter who writes for children as well as adults.
Biography
Early life and education
Montgomery was born on February 7, 1958, in Frankfurt, Germany. As a child she lived in Frankfurt, Germany; Brooklyn, New York; Alexandria, Virginia; and Westfield, New Jersey | Sy Montgomery |
2,599 | Virginia Morell (born 1949) is an American science writer. She is the author of several books, and is a contributor to National Geographic and Science, among other publications.
Early life and education
Morell was born in 1949 | Virginia Morell |
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