Edward Alphonso Goldman

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Edward Alphonso Goldman , b. Goltman (born July 7, 1873 in Mount Carmel , Illinois , † September 2, 1946 in Washington, DC ) was an American zoologist and botanist.

Live and act

In 1888 Goldman and his family moved to Tulare County , California . At the age of 17 he was working as a foreman in a vineyard near Fresno . In 1892 he was employed by Edward William Nelson in the Bureau of Biological Survey, where he worked as a field biologist. Nelson and Goldman conducted field studies in Mexico between 1892 and 1906, ten years of them together. In 1911 he conducted research in the Panama Canal zone for two years . He then did biological fieldwork in Arizona until 1917 . From 1918 to 1919 he served in France with the medical service of the American Expeditionary Force , where he was responsible for combating rats and mice. From 1919 to 1925 he worked as a senior biologist and from 1928 to 1943 as head of the department for biological research in the Bureau of Biological Survey. Between 1922 and 1937 he was a major in the reserve in the United States Armed Forces Medical Service . From 1925 to 1928 he was head of the Department of Game and Bird Reserves in the Bureau of Biological Survey . From 1927 to 1929 he was President of the Biological Society of Washington . In 1928 he received an honorary position as a staff member in the zoological department at the United States National Museum . From 1944 to 1946 he worked for the newly created United States Fish and Wildlife Service . In 1946 he was President of the American Society of Mammalogists .

Goldman has written over 200 publications, including Revision of the Wood Rats of the Genus Neotoma (1910), Rice Rats of North America (1918), Mammals of Panama (1920), The Wolves of North America (1944), The Puma: Mysterious American Cat (posthumously, 1946) and Biological Investigations in Mexico (posthumously, 1951). His first scientific descriptions, often in collaboration with Edward William Nelson, include Sorex ornatus juncensis , the Barbados raccoon , Goldman's water mouse , Zeledon's pygmy-pouch rat and the Panama pygmy -rat , the Mexican wolf and the Panama night monkey .

Dedication names and honors

Goldman's name is immortalized in the epithets of approximately 50 mammalian, avian, reptilian, mollusc and plant taxa, including Chaetodipus goldmani (1900 by Wilfred Hudson Osgood ), Cryptotis goldmani (1895 by Clinton Hart Merriam ), Neotoma goldmani (1903 by Clinton Hart Merriam) and Heteromys goldmani (1902 by Clinton Hart Merriam). In 1911 Edward William Nelson named the monotypical hummingbird genus Goldmania in honor of Goldman. A mountain peak bears his name on the Baja California peninsula .

literature

  • Stanley Paul Young: Edward Alphonso Goldman: 1873-1946 . In: Journal of Mammalogy . tape 28 , no. 2 , May 1947, p. 91-109 , doi : 10.2307 / 1375449 , JSTOR : 1375449 (English).
  • Theodore Sherman Palmer: Obituaries - Edward Alphonso Goldman . In: The Auk . tape 64 , no. 3 , 1947, pp. 503 (English, sora.unm.edu [PDF; 429 kB ]).
  • Edward William Nelson: Descriptions of a new genus and species of humming-birds from Panama . In: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . tape 56 , no. 21 , 1912, pp. 1-2 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Clinton Hart Merriam: Revision of the Shrews of the American genera Blarina and Notiosorex . In: North American fauna. No. 10 , 1895, p. 5-34 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Clinton Hart Merriam: Twenty new pocket mice (Heteromys and Liomys) from Mexico . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 15 , 1902, pp. 41-50 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Clinton Hart Merriam: Two New Wood Rats (Genus Neotoma) from State of Coahuila, Mexico . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 16 , 1903, pp. 47-48 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Wilfred Hudson Osgood: Revision of Pocket Mice of the Genus Perognathus . In: North American fauna. No. 18 , 1900, p. 1-72 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Wilfred Hudson Osgood: Thirty new mice of the genus Peromyscus from Mexico and Guatemala . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 17 , 1904, pp. 55-77 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1900), p. 54.
  2. ^ Clinton Hart Merriam (1895), p. 25.
  3. ^ Clinton Hart Merriam (1903), p. 48.
  4. ^ Clinton Hart Merriam (1902), p. 41.
  5. ^ Edward William Nelson, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Goldman, Edward Alphonso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldman, Edward A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American zoologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Carmel , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1946
Place of death Washington, DC