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Exist Dates: 1864 May 19 - 1926 November 17
Abstract: Carl Ethan Akeley (born May 19, 1864, Clarendon, New York— died November 17, 1926, Belgian Congo, Africa), taxidermist, sculptor, inventor, explorer, and naturalist, who led five expeditions to Africa, three of which for the Museum of Natural History where he gathered specimens for his African Hall Exhibition. He is the author of the book In Brightest Africa.

Exist Dates: 1875 December 5 - 1970 May 22
Abstract: Delia Julia Denning (born December 5, 1875 Beaver Dam, Wisconsin – died May 22, 1970, Daytona Beach, Florida), explorer, big game hunter, naturalist, and author, who went on four expeditions to Africa, both with former husband Carl Ethan Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History as well as solo for the Brooklyn Museum . She is the author of numerous magazine articles as well as the books J.T., j.r.: the biography of the African monkey (1929) and Jungle Portraits (1930).

Exist Dates: 1878 - 1966
Abstract: See description in AMNH Archives database: https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/agents/amnhp_1000019

Exist Dates: July 19, 1838 - August 30, 1921
Abstract: Joel 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.

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