Herbert Huntington Smith
Herbert Huntington Smith (born January 21, 1851 in Manlius , New York, † March 22, 1919 in Tuscaloosa ) was an American naturalist . Smith was hit by a train in Tuscaloosa and died.
Live and act
Smith was the son of Charles Smith and Julia Maria (nee Huntington). He studied at Cornell University from 1868 to 1872. He was married to Amelia Woolworth ("Daisy") Smith since October 5, 1880.
Smith is best known for his voyages of discovery and collecting around 50,000 copies. He was in Brazil from 1871, from 1873 to 1877, and from 1881 to 1886. From 1890 to 1895 he was on behalf of the West Indies Commission of Ray Society in the Caribbean . In 1889 he visited Mexico and Colombia from 1898 to 1901 on behalf of the Biologia Centrali-Americana . From 1896 to 1898 he was a curator at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and then until his death at the Natural History Museum in Alabama .
The Mexican red-knee tarantula ( Brachypelma smithi ( FOP-Cambridge , 1897)) was named after Smith .
bibliography
- with James Wells Champney : Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . Charles Scribners son, New York 1879 (English, archive.org ).
- The Showalter Collection . In: The Nautilus . tape 22 , no. 11 , 1909, pp. 117-118 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- Directions for collecting land shells . In: Museum of the Geological Survey of Alabama (= Museum Paper ). No. 2 , 1912, pp. 1-12 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- with Karl von den Steinen : Thu Rio de Janeiro a Cuyabá Notas de um naturalista . Companhia Melhoramentos de S. Paulo, Cayeiras 1922 (Portuguese, biodiversitylibrary.org ).
literature
- George Hubbard Clapp: Herbert Huntington Smith . In: The Nautilus . tape 33 , no. 4 , 1919, pp. 136-141 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- William Jacob Holland: Herbert Huntington Smith . In: Annals of the Carnegie Museum . tape 12 , 1919, pp. 353-358 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- Theodore Sherman Palmer: Herbert Huntington Smith . In: The Nautilus . tape 37 , no. 4 , 1920, p. 637–638 (English, sora.unm.edu [PDF; 346 kB ]).
- Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge: Arachnida. Araneidea and Opiliones . In: Biologia Centrali-Americana . tape 2 , p. 1-601 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1897-1905).
Web links
- Herbert Huntington Smith at Illinois Natural History Survey
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smith, Herbert Huntington |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manlius |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1919 |
| Place of death | Tuscaloosa |