Henry Philemon Attwater

Henry Philemon Attwater (born April 28, 1854 in Brighton ; died September 25, 1931 in Houston ) was an American naturalist and taxidermist of British-Canadian descent.

life and work

Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton , England in 1854 and emigrated to Ontario , Canada in 1873 , where he lived as a farmer and beekeeper. He began to be interested in natural history and in 1883, together with John A. Morden, organized natural history exhibitions in which they set up prepared animals. In 1884 he organized a collection tour with Morden in Bexar County , Texas . He was hired in 1884/85 with Toudouze to organize and prepare a natural history exhibition for Texas at the New Orlean's World Fair in 1885.

Attwater published scientific articles in the field of ornithology and mammalogy and organized and collected animals for the collections of the Smithsonian Institution , among other things . In 1900 and again in 1905 he was elected director of the National Audubon Society and through his influence the Texas Audubon Society found connection to the Texas Farmers' Congress, the Texas Cotton Growers' Association and the Texas Corn Growers' Association around 1910 to assert their goals in nature conservation. He sat among others for the protection of the mourning dove ( Zenaida macroura ) that decreased their stocks at the beginning of the 20th century strong, and reported mass deaths of warblers ( Sylvia ).

Honors

Several species have been named in honor of Henry Philemon Attwater. The naturalist Clinton Hart Merriam named the Attwater pocket rat ( Geomys attwateri ) after him in 1895 and in the same year Joel Asaph Allen dedicated the first description of the Texas mouse ( Peromyscus attwateri ) to him. Among the birds, the Attwateri prairie chicken ( Tympanuchus cupido attwateri ) was named after him by Charles Bendire in 1893 .

supporting documents

↑ ^a ^b ^c "Attwater" In Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; Pp. 19-20; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .
↑ "Attwater" In Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014; o. S.

personal data
SURNAME	Attwater, Henry Philemon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American officer and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brighton , England
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 1931
Place of death	Houston

[Beolens_et_al._2009-1] "Attwater" In Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; Pp. 19-20; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .

[Beolens_et_al._2014-2] "Attwater" In Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014; o. S.