David H. Johnson
David Horn Johnson (born September 9, 1912 in Oregon , † August 12, 1996 in Hornbrook , Siskiyou County , California ) was an American mammaloge . His research focus was the Asian mammals .
Life
Johnson was the son of Albert O. Johnson and Gertrude Horn Condrey. He studied zoology under Joseph Grinnell and Eugene Raymond Hall . In 1940 he was with the thesis Systematic review of the chipmunks (genus Eutamias) of California at the University of California, Berkeley for Ph.D. PhD. In 1941 he became assistant curator of the mammals division at the National Museum of Natural History . During the Second World War he was stationed in the rank of Lieutenant Commander in Naval Medical Research Unit Two on Guam , where his interest in the Asian mammal fauna developed. From 1948 to 1965 he was the head of the mammal division of the National Museum of Natural History.
In 1948 Johnson was a key figure in the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in northern Australia. His shooting skills, taxidermy skills, and Bushman talents were particularly impressive, which was also recognized by the Aboriginal people he worked with.
In the mid-1950s, Johnson was a member of the Pacific Island Council Ecology Project of the Pacific Science Board, where he discovered the long-nosed Luzon wood mouse ( Apomys sacobianus ) on the Philippine island of Luzon in 1956 , a rodent that was subsequently lost 35 years before it was rediscovered in 1991.
Dedication names
In 1948 Johnson described the extinct Veloz-Zaguti ( Plagiodontia ipnaeum ) of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, also known as the Johnson piglet-rat. In 1955 Herbert Deignan dedicated the subspecies Caprimulgus macrurus johnsoni of the long-tailed nightjar from the Philippines to him.
Publications (selection)
- The mammals of Siskiyou County, California , 1934
- The spiny-rats of the Riu Kiu Islands , 1946
- Vertebrate animals of the Providence Mountains Area of California , 1948
- The incredible kangaroo: Australia's famous marsupial sits on its tail, fights like a man, bounces like a steel spring and graces a coat of arms , 1955
- Review of the Insectivores of Korea , 1960 (with J. Knox-Jones)
- Synopsis of the lagomorphs and rodents of Korea , 1965 (with J. Knox-Jones)
- Mammals from Nepal , 1979 (with S. Dillon Ripley and Kitti Thonglongya)
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| SURNAME | Johnson, David H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, David Horn (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mammal loge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oregon |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1996 |
| Place of death | Hornbrook , Siskiyou County , California |