Edwin Horace Bryan Junior

Edwin Horace Bryan, Jr. (born April 13, 1898 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † July 24, 1985 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) was an American naturalist. From 1919 to 1968 he worked as a curator in various departments of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum .

Live and act

When Bryan was a year old, his father, a shoe retailer, moved the family to the Redlands Area in Southern California. After graduating from Redlands High School, he moved to Hawaii in 1916. He studied at the College of Hawaii (now the University of Hawaii ), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1920 . During the First World War he trained soldiers in the US Army Training Corps. Bryan worked in the library while he was a student and became assistant to the botanist Joseph Rock . On the recommendation of entomologist David Livingston Crawford (1889–1974) Bryan worked in 1919 as an assistant to Otto Herman Swezey in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. In 1920 he assisted director Herbert Ernest Gregory (1869–1952) in organizing the first Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Honolulu. In 1921 Bryan graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Philosophy. In 1922 Bryan became a curator in the entomological department of the Bishop Museum. In 1924 he obtained a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii.

From 1920 to 1923 Bryan was a participant in the Whitney South Seas Expedition and in 1924 in the Tanager Expedition to the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. During the Second World War he interrupted his work for the Bishop Museum and did his military service, which he finished with the rank of lieutenant colonel , in the Pacific. During this time he produced an atlas of the Pacific Islands, which became a reference work for the United States Army. In 1960 the Pacific Science Information Center was founded with Bryan as its first director.

From 1926 to 1958 Bryan published several papers on the Hawaiian entomofauna and avifauna.

Dedication names

The following taxa are named after Bryan: Haplostachys bryanii , Chasiempis sandwichensis bryani (subspecies of Elepaios ), Midway shearwaters ( Puffinus bryani ), Mariscus pennatiformis var. Bryanii and the beetle genus Bryanites from Samoa .

Works (selection)

• Insects of Hawaii, Johnston Island and Wake Island , 1926
• American Polynesia: Coral islands of the central Pacific , 1941
• American Polynesia and the Hawaiian chain , 1942
• Economic Insects of Micronesia , 1949
• The Hawaiian chain , 1954
• Stars over Hawaii , 1955
• Notes on the geography and natural history of Wake Island , 1959 (Atoll Research Bulletin No. 66, online )
• Bryan's sectional maps of Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands , 1959
• Guide to place names in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: (the Marshall, Caroline and Mariana Islands) , 1971
• Life in the Marshall Islands , 1972

literature

• Neal L. Evenhuis: Field Notes of EH Bryan, Jr. on the Whitney South Seas Expedition (February – November 1924) . Pacific Biological Survey Bishop Museum. Bishop Museum Technical Report 37, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2007
• Peter Pyle , Andreanna J. Welch, and Robert C. Fleischer : A New Species of Shearwater (Puffinus) Recorded from Midway Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In: The Condor, issue 113, 2011, 3rd quarter: pp. 518–527.

Web links

• Literature by and about Edwin Horace Bryan junior in the bibliographic database WorldCat