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Charles Marcus Breder (1897-1983) was an ichthyologist who held curatorial and directorial positions at the New York Aquarium and the American Museum of Natural History, including the Museum’s Lerner Marine Laboratory. His repute rests in part on work in fish behavior, including locomotion, and prodigious writing. Throughout his career he undertook fieldwork within the Americas (including Panama, 1924; Florida, 1929, 1938-1942, 1957; Bahamas, 1930, 1932, 1933; Sargasso Sea and Caribbean Sea, 1934; Mexico, 1940; South America, Golfo de Guayaquil, 1942). (1) He produced about thirty volumes of journals. (2) Breder was born and grew up in New Jersey, and as an adult lived in Mahwah, New Jersey; North Bimini; Manasota Key, Florida; and other areas. Married three times (to Ruth B. Demarest, Ethel Lear Snyder, and Priscilla Rasquin, former assistant curator, Department of Fishes and Aquatic Biology at the Museum), he was the father of two sons, Charles Marcus III and Richard Frederick, and a grandfather and great-grandfather of numerous children. (3) Late in life he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. (4) Breder died at age eighty-six on October 28, 1983, in Englewood Hospital, Florida. (5)
Breder's father, Charles Breder Senior, graduated from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, and worked in transportation.
Breder and his first wife, Ruth, had two children. She traveled to Panama when he became seriously ill during the Marsh-Darien Expedition.
Ethel, Breder's second wife, died from cancer.
Breder's third wife, Priscilla, was a former colleague at the Museum (assistant curator, Department of Fishes and Aquatic Biology).
Noble, Curator of Herpetology at the Museum, asked Breder to represent the Museum in an expedition to Central America (Marsh-Darien Expedition, 1924).
Marsh worked for oil companies and explored the Americas. He was deeply interested in the Kuna of Panama. In 1924 he led the Marsh-Darien Expedition.
Breder's role as representative included collecting materials and creating life histories for the Museum’s Reptiles and Amphibians Department. Afterward he published articles on his work in Panama.
Nichols and Breder were Museum colleagues and collaborated on articles and papers.
Parr and Breder shared professional ties with New York Aquarium, Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, and the Museum. As Museum Director, Parr offered Breder position of chairman in Department of Fishes and Aquatic Biology.
Breder participated as collector on Atlantis research vessel. Expedition team explored Gulf of Mexico, Sargasso Sea, and Caribbean Sea.
Museum research station situated in North Bimini, Bahamas. In 1946, Breder served on the Advisory Committee, Michael Lerner Foundation for Marine Research. In 1947, he became Lerner Marine Laboratory's administrative director. Lerner Laboratory closed in 1975.