George Henry Hamilton Tate

George Henry Hamilton Tate (born April 30, 1894 in London , England , † December 24, 1953 in Morristown , New Jersey ) was an American zoologist of English origin.

Live and act

In 1912, Tate and his family moved from England to New York City . From 1912 to 1914 he worked as a telegraph operator in Long Island . In 1914 he was drafted into the British Army . Between 1918 and 1919 he studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. In 1921 he received an assistant position in the mammalian department of the American Museum of Natural History . From 1921 to 1929 he took part in several collecting expeditions of the museum in South America . In 1927 he became a US citizen. In the same year he graduated with a Bachelor of Science and in 1931 a Master of Science from Columbia University . In 1932 he became assistant curator, in 1942 freelance curator and in 1946 curator at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1938 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Montreal. In the 1930s and 1940s, Tate undertook expeditions to New Guinea (1936–1937), Venezuela (1938), West Africa (1939–1940) and Australia (1947–1948). In 1945 and 1947 Tate's best-known publications Mammals of the Pacific World and Mammals of Eastern Asia appeared . Tate's first descriptions, some of which were written in collaboration with Richard Archbold , include Paramurexia rothschildi , Micromurexia habbema , the fat-tailed pouch mice , the piglet squirrels , the genus Microhydromys , the Guam flying fox, and Abeomelomys sevia .

Dedication names

In 1941 Austin Loomer Rand named the lowland owl ( Aegotheles tatei ) and Bassett Maguire named the plant genus Neotatea in honor of George Henry Hamilton Tate in 1972 .

Works (selection)

• 1933: A systematic revision of the marsupial genus Marmosa
• 1935: The taxonomy of the genera of neotropical hystricoid rodents
• 1937: Some marsupials of New Guinea and Celebes
• 1944: A List of the Mammals of the Japanese War Area . 3 volumes
• 1945: Mammals of the Pacific World
• 1947: Mammals of Eastern Asia
• 1948: Studies in the Peramelidae (Marsupialia)
• 1951: The Rodents of Australia and New Guinea
• 1953: Summary of the 1948 Cape York (Australia) Expedition
• 1965: A study of the diurnal squirrels, Sciurinae, of the Indian and Indochinese subregions (with Joseph Curtis Moore )

Web links

• Chrono-Biographical Sketches Tate, George Henry Hamilton (England-United States 1894-1953)
• Literature by and about George Henry Hamilton Tate in the WorldCat bibliographic database