Chapman Grant

Chapman Grant (born March 27, 1887 in Salem Center , New York , † January 5, 1983 in Escondido , California ) was an American zoologist , historian and publisher . He was the grandson of US President Ulysses S. Grant.

biography

Chapman Grant was the son of Jesse Grant, the youngest son of former US President Ulysses S. Grant . In 1892 he moved to San Diego with his parents . From 1910 to 1913 he worked as assistant to director Charles Haskins Townsend at the New York Aquarium . While studying in New York in 1913 , he was assistant curator at the Children's Museum at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He left the museum for a military career which he finished as a major. In the 1930s and 1950s, several expeditions of the San Diego Museum of Natural History and the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History took him to the West Indies (e.g. Grand Cayman , Puerto Rico , Navassa , Culebra , Virgin Islands ). During his studies of Caribbean Herpetofauna discovered and he described fifteen new species including the Blue Iguana ( Cyclura lewisi ) Aristelliger cochranae , Sphaerodactylus beattyi , Sphaerodactylus gaigae , klauberi Sphaerodactylus , Sphaerodactylus nicholsi , Sphaerodactylus roosevelti , Sphaerodactylus townsendi , Ctenonotus cooki , Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti , Eleutherodactylus cochranae , Eleutherodactylus cooki and Roosevelt's anole ( Anolis roosevelti ).

In 1932, Chapman Grant founded the magazine Herpetologica (largest scientific reptile and amphibian journal in the USA), which he published himself until 1960. Another magazine - Scientists Forum - was published by him. In 1936 he founded the Herpetologists' League , an amalgamation of several herpetologists in the USA. In 1982 a hall in the San Diego Museum of Natural History was named after him. In 1983 he died in a retirement home in Escondido, California. He left a son Ulysses S. Grant V (born September 20, 1920, † March 7, 2011).

Works

• The Herpetology of Jamaica (with W. Gardner Lynn), Bull. Inst. Jamaica Sci. Ser. 1: 1-148, 1940

literature

• Kraig Adler: Contributions to the History of Herpetology. Volume 2. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2007, ISBN 978-0-916984-71-7 .

Web links

• Chapman Grant Dead at 95; Grandson of Ulysses S. Grant - Obituary in the New York Times (Eng.)