Henry Bryant

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Members of the Megatherium Club : (back from left) Robert Kennicott , Henry Ulke , (front from left) William Stimpson and Henry Bryant (about 1864)

Henry Perkins Bryant (* 1820 in Boston , Massachusetts , † 1867 in Arecibo , Puerto Rico ) was an American doctor, naturalist and ornithologist .

Bryant completed his medical degree at Harvard University in 1840 and then trained in Paris . As a military doctor in the French Army, he served a year in North Africa before returning to Boston. Because of poor health, he did not practice as a doctor, but collected birds on extensive trips through North America and the Caribbean. In 1858, Bryant was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . During the Civil War he served as a field shear in the 20th Massachusetts Regiment . When Frédéric de Lafresnaye's bird collection was up for sale in 1866 , he bought it and left it to himBoston Society of Natural History . He died in Puerto Rico, where he worked for the Smithsonian Institution .

He was the grandfather of Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879-1967).

Bryant described numerous taxa, especially birds, including Vireo crassirostris (1859), Coereba flaveola portoricensis (1866), Loxipasser (1866), Myiarchus antillarum (1866), Geothlypis rostrata rostrata (1867), Contopus hispaniolensis (1867) but also a western gray squirrel ( Sciurus griseus nigripes , 1889). Its author abbreviation is Bryant or H. Bryant .

Several taxa are named after him, in particular birds, including Bryant's Savannah Sparrow ( Passerculus sandwichiensis alaudinus , Bonaparte 1853), Bryant's Golden Warbler ( gold warbler , Dendroica petechia bryanti , Ridgway 1873), red-shouldered blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus bryanti , Ridgway 1887) Grassquit ( Tiaris olivaceus bryanti , Ridgway 1889).

Web links

 Wikispecies: Henry Bryant  - Species Directory

literature

  • Bryant, HP In: Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4729-0574-1 , pp. 208 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jorge Duany: The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move . Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8078-5372-6 , pp. 288 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bryant, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bryant, Henry Perkins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor, naturalist, and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 1867
Place of death Arecibo , Puerto Rico