Hobart Muir Smith

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Hobart Muir Smith (born September 26, 1912 in Stanwood (Iowa) , USA , † March 4, 2013 in Boulder ), born Frederick William Stouffer , was an American herpetologist . He died in The Villas at the Atrium retirement home in Boulder.

life and work

Smith studied at Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in 1932 and received his doctorate in 1936 at the University of Kansas with Edward Harrison Taylor on lizards of the genus Sceloporus . As a post-doctoral student at the University of Michigan, he was involved in a monograph on lizards of the genus Sceloporus from Mexico and Central America. He then went to the Field Museum in Chicago, collecting reptiles for the Smithsonian Institution in Mexico. In 1941 he became Professor of Zoology at the University of Rochester , 1945 Associate Professor at the University of Kansas and 1946 at Texas A&M University . From 1947 to his retirement in 1968 he was professor of zoology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . After retiring in 1968, he went to the University of Colorado in Boulder as a professor of biology. In 1983 he also retired there.

Smith has discovered and described more than 100 new reptiles and amphibians . In addition, at least five species were named after him, e.g. B. the adder Tantilla hobartsmithi and the anole Anolis hobartsmithi . Smith was productive well into old age and published scientific articles in the last year of his life. With more than 1,600 published manuscripts, he is the most widely published herpetologist.

Fonts

  • Checklist and key to snakes of Mexico (1945)
  • Handbook of Lizards, Lizards of the US and of Canada (1946)
  • Checklist and key to amphibians of Mexico (1948)
  • Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of Kansas (1950)
  • Checklist and Key to Reptiles of Mexico Exclusive of Snakes (1950)
  • with Herbert S. Zim : Reptiles and Amphibians: A Guide to Familiar American Species (1953, 1956)
  • Reptiles and Amphibians - A Guide to Familiar American Species (1958)
  • Poisonous Amphibians and Reptiles (1959)
  • Evolution of Chordate Structure (1961)
  • Snakes as Pets (1965)
  • Analysis of the Literature on the Mexican Axolotl (1971)
  • Analysis of the Literature Exclusive of the Mexican Axolotl (1973)
  • Source Analysis and Index for Mexican Reptiles (1976)
  • Source Analysis and Index for Mexican Amphibians (1976)
  • Guide to Mexican Amphisbaenians and Crocodilians (1977)
  • Guide to Mexican Turtles (1980)
  • with Edmund D. Brodie Jr .: Reptiles of North America - A Guide to Field Identification (1982)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hobart M Smith has passed away
  2. ↑ Hobart Muir Smith, Titan in American Herpetology Dies at 100 ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reptilechannel.com
  3. ↑ Obituary: Hobart Muir Smith
  4. ↑ Uetz, P: The original descriptions of reptiles . In: Zootaxa . 2334, 2010, pp. 59-68.
  5. ^ Hobart M. Smith: Some notes on the last hundred years and the next stages in the evolution of herpetology . In: Herpetological Conservation and Biology . 7, No. 2, 2012, pp. Xi-xiv.
  6. ^ Bury, R. Bruce, and Trauth, Stanley E.: Pioneer of herpetology at his century mark: Hobart M. Smith . In: Herpetological Conservation and Biology . 7, No. 2, 2012, pp. Vii-viii.
  7. ↑ David Chiszar: Hobart M. Smith turns 100 . In: Herpetological Conservation and Biology . 7, No. 2, 2012, pp. Ix-x.
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Hobart Muir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stouffer, Frederick William (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanwood (Iowa) , Iowa , USA
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2013
Place of death Boulder