John Eric Hill

John Eric Hill (born July 27, 1907 in Devon (since 1945 part of Fredericton ), New Brunswick , † July 8, 1947 in New York City , New York ) was an American mammal loge .

Life

While studying at the University of Kansas , Hill met the zoologist Charles Dean Bunker (1870-1948) who was curator of birds and mammals at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum . Hill received a post as a museum assistant in the mammal department until the summer of 1931 and accompanied Bunker on three collective excursions. In the summer of 1929, they collected in central New Mexico and south-central New Mexico. They spent the summer of 1930 in the Mogollon Mountains in New Mexico . In 1930 an expedition went to south-central Arizona . Hill received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas in the spring of 1931 and a Ph.D. in 1934 from the University of California. PhD. During his graduate studies he had a position as a teaching assistant in zoology. In 1935 he became a research fellow at the University of California's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and assistant curator for mammals at the American Museum of Natural History . In 1937, Hill and his wife traveled to Europe to study specimens of African mammals in museums in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, and England on a Carnegie grant. Hill and his wife undertook several collecting expeditions on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History, including from August to September 1936 in New Brunswick, in the summer of 1938 in northeast New Mexico near Cimarron in Colfax County , in the summer of 1940 in the Meade Basin in southwest Kansas , the San Luis Valley in Colorado, and Oklahoma . Between January 1943 and February 1944, Hill and his wife were involved in a study project on the Florida water rat in Florida . They then brought live specimens of the Florida water rat to a laboratory at the American Museum of Natural History for further study and observation. Although Hill has few publications to show, they contain fundamental insights into the anatomy, natural history and taxonomy of mammals. In 1937 he published the study Morphology of the pocket gopher, mammalian genus Thomomys, (University of California publications in zoology) . In the same year, he described the subspecies Pipistrellus capensis angolensis of the Cape pipistrelle and the bat species Mops chitauensis , which is now synonymous with the white-bellied bulldog bat ( Tadarida niveiventer ). Together with Thomas Donald Carter , he described Vernay's climbing mouse ( Dendromus vernayi ) in 1937 . In 1941 he published the work The Mammals of Angola, Africa with Carter . In 1942 he described the subspecies Perognathus flavus sanluisi of the silk pocket mouse .

literature

• CB Hibbard: Obituary Notes: John Eric Hill, 1907-1947. Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 29, Issue 1, February 1, 1948, p. 93