amnhp_1000026newOCLC-YAMAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryEnglishlcnafLibrary of Congress Name Authority Fileamnhopac American Museum of Natural History Online Public Access Catalog
Controlled names derived from the AMNH Library catalog.
localUncontrolled Form
For use with uncontrolled names found in AMNH documentation.
statusStatus of record descriptionexhibitionTypeDistinguishes the kind of exhibition held, such as, current, historic,
recurring or annual.amnhClassIndicates local classification of entity.created2016 November 06machineIris LeeMinimal-level entity record transformed into xml from Excel spread sheet using python script written by Nick Krabbenhoeft. Status=1.updated2018 September 26humanIris Leeadd description to bioghist from library opacrevised2020 November 18humanIris Leefix controlled name: Allen, J. A. (Joseph Asaph) to (Joel Asaph); replaced convention and local declarations; added amnh status for description level; fix place namepersonAllen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921lcnafJuly 19, 1838August 30, 1921basicJoel Asaph Allen was a museum curator, ornithologist, zoologist, taxonomist and writer. He was curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Dept. of Mammalogy and Ornithology, 1885-1920. Allen began collecting and classifying birds at the age of 13. He studied at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) and became a staff member in 1871, meanwhile participating in the 1865-1866 Thayer Expedition to Brazil, on which he collected bird and mammal skins, geological specimens, fishes, reptiles and other vertebrates. Allen also participated in several U.S. expeditions, collecting, surveying and making scientific observations. At the AMNH, Allen increasingly concentrated his attention on acquisitions, research and writing, and editorial work, cataloging thousands of specimens of birds and mammals in the museum's collections and providing editorial supervision for the Bulletin of the AMNH and the Memoirs of the AMNH. He was the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union for seven years from its formation in 1883, and was editor of The Auk for 27 years.