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Exist Dates: 1870 August 26 - 1950 November 22
Abstract: ROLLO HOWARD BECK was born on August 26, 1870 in Los Gatos, CA to Laura Elizabeth Vance Beck and Thomas Beck. His sister, Dr. Edna Beck Keisler, worked as a missionary in India.

Exist Dates: 1897 June 25 - 1983 October 28
Abstract: 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. Breder died at age eighty-six on October 28, 1983, in Englewood Hospital, Florida.

Exist Dates: 1898 April 13 - 1985 July 24
Abstract: EDWIN HORACE BRYAN, Jr. was born on April 13, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Edwin Horace Bryan, Sr.

Exist Dates: 1886 October 5 - 1987 June 20
Abstract: Frederick B. Butler, (born October 5, 1886, California--died June 20, 1987, California), cartographer and Army engineer, who was appointed assistant topographer for the 1925 field season of the Third Asiatic Expedition. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1918, Butler had a long career in the Army until his retirement ca. 1954.

Exist Dates: 1889 - 1964
Abstract: James Paul Chapin (1889-1964) was a noted Ornithologist and former Curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. At the age of 19 he took the role of assistant to the American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915). This began his life-long association with that region and established his place as an expert on the birds of the Congo. A graduate of Columbia University, Chapin worked at the Museum from 1905 until his official retirement in 1948, after which he took the role of research associate in African Ornithology and curator emeritus until his death.

Exist Dates: 1881 January 27 - 1954 April 26
Abstract: JOSE GONCALVES CORREIA was born on January 27, 1881 in Flamengos, Fayal Island, in the Azores to Anna Correia (née Jacintha) and Jose Goncalves Correia. He had two brothers, Manuel and John, and two sisters, Mariana Goncalves and Margarida de Rosa.

Exist Dates: 1900 - 1987 December 16
Abstract: WILLIAM F. COULTAS acted as leader of the Whitney South Sea Expedition from April 1925 to October 1935. The Whitney South Sea Expedition was an ornithological expedition originated by Dr. Leonard C. Sanford and funded by Harry Payne Whitney, with the mission of systematically exploring Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia for previously undiscovered or little-known bird specimens. It was the largest ornithological expedition ever conceived. Active field research was conducted from 1920 to 1941.

Exist Dates: 1889 January 17 - 1972 August 24
Abstract: C. Suydam Cutting was born in New York City in 1899, and died in 1972. He was the son of Robert Fulton Cutting (1852-1934). Cutting senior was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, and a banker; politician; society figure; and philanthropist.(1) C. Suydam Cutting served in both world wars and was a decorated veteran. He had a Croix de Guerre (with gold star) and Croix Noire from the French. He was also an Honorary Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. (2)

Exist Dates: 1880 January 14 - 1930 June 27
Abstract: FREDERICK PEABODY DROWNE was born on January 14, 1880 to Alice Wheeler Peabody and Christopher Rhodes Drowne.

Exist Dates: 1892 November 16 - 1974 December 31
Abstract: WALTER JAKOB EYERDAM was born on November 16, 1892 in Seattle, Washington.

Exist Dates: 1878 May 22 - 1949 January 7
Abstract: George Clyde Fisher, known as Clyde, was a scientist and educator who worked for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) from 1913 until his retirement in 1941. He worked in the Department of Education before his involvement in the development of the Astronomy department. He was instrumental in the planning and execution of the Hayden Planetarium, and acted as its first curator when it opened in 1935.

Exist Dates: 1904 - 1982 June 28
Abstract: HANNIBAL HAMLIN was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1904 to Hattie Hamlin (née Bennion) and Cyrus Hamlin. He had two sisters, Sally Cworowsky (née Hamlin) and Eleanor Vendig (née Hamlin).

Exist Dates: 1879 - 1957
Abstract: Herbert Lang (1879-1957) was a German-born taxidermist, mammalogist, naturalist and photographer. He was originally employed by the American Museum of Natural History in 1903 as taxidermist in the presentations department, and worked for that institution for almost twenty-three years. He is best known as the leader and photographer of the 1909-1915 American Museum Congo Expedition. He later acted as a Curator in the Department of Mammalogy, and would continue to participate in research expeditions. Although he maintained association with the American Museum of Natural History, he moved to South Africa in 1925 and began a working relationship with the Transvaal Museum. He is well-respected for his wildlife and ethnographic photographs.

Abstract: THOMAS LINDSAY MACMILLAN was born in 1906 on Tanna, an island in Vanuatu (New Hebrides) to an Australian father who was a doctor and missionary on the island. He spent most of his life in this island group and Australia, working as a farmer, managing a mission, and for five years as leader of the American Museum of Natural History Whitney South Sea Expedition. For the Whitney South Sea Expedition, he explored and collected in New Caledonia and the New Hebrides island groups.

Exist Dates: 1904 July 5 - 2005 February 3
Abstract: ERNST MAYR was born on July 5, 1904 in Kempten, Germany to Helene (née Pusinelli) and Otto Mayr.

Exist Dates: 1886 January 3 - 1958 January 24
Abstract: William James Morden was born in Chicago, Ill. on January 3, 1886 to a wealthy family with a railroad business. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1908 with an advanced degree in engineering, which he put to use while working for his family’s company before serving as a lieutenant in the Army Engineers Corps in France during WWI. Morden began his life as an explorer in 1921 when he took off on his first journey, an AMNH expedition to the Yukon Territory. Four major expeditions followed which were also under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. These included voyages to central Asia for the Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition in 1926 and the Morden-Graves Expedition in 1929-1930, and to Africa for the Morden African Expedition in 1922-1923 and for another expedition conducted 1947 and again in 1953.

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