John Treadwell Nichols

John Treadwell Nichols (born June 11, 1883 in Jamaica Plain , Boston , Massachusetts , † November 10, 1958 in Garden City , Long Island , New York ) was an American zoologist. His research focus was ichthyology .

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John Treadwell Nichols was the son of John White Treadwell Nichols and Mary Blake Slocum. He had five siblings. His father was a partner in the New York haberdashery company Minot Hooper & Company . In 1906, Nichols enrolled at Harvard College , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in zoology. In 1907 he began as an assistant in the mammalian department of the American Museum of Natural History . Between 1913 and 1919 he was assistant curator, from 1920 to 1927 guest curator and from 1927 to 1952 curator in the fish department. In June 1910 he married Cornelia DuBois Floyd. From this marriage there were four children. In 1913 he founded the journal Copeia , the official journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists . In 1916, together with Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray, he described the Bermuda petrel ( Pterodroma cahow ), long thought to be extinct . Mowbray discovered a specimen in a flock of petrels on the Bermuda island of Castle Island in 1906 45 years before his son Louis and David Balcombe Wingate officially rediscovered this species. Nichols was part of a team of scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, alongside Robert Cushman Murphy , who studied the July 1916 shark attacks on the New Jersey coast .

Nichols wrote about 1000 scientific articles (including the first descriptions of the genus Bajacalifornia , the fork-tailed rainbow fish and the species Pseudogobiopsis tigrellus ) and several books. He took part in numerous expeditions around the world. Nichols was named in honor of Nichols mouthbrooders ( Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi ).

John Treadwell Nichols was a member of the Explorers Club , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Ornithologists' Union , the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the American Society of Mammalogists , the Nuttall Ornithological Club, in the American Fisheries Society and the Linnean Society of New York.

Nichols' grandson is the American author John Nichols ( Milagro - The War in the Bean Field ).

Fonts

• 1916: The Sharks (with Robert Cushman Murphy)
• 1917: Fresh-water fishes of the Congo Basin obtained by the American museum Congo expedition, 1909-1915 (with Ludlow Griscom and James Paul Chapin)
• 1918: Fishes in the Vicinity of New York City
• 1927: Marine Fishes of New York and Southern New England
• 1938: Field book of Fresh-water Fishes of North America North of Mexico
• 1943: The Freshwater Fishes of China
• 1942: Representative North American Fresh-water Fishes
• 1945: Fishes and Shells of the Pacific World

literature

• Charles Foster Batchelder: An account of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1873 to 1919. Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1937, p. 99.
• Dean Amadon : John Treadwell Nichols. In: The Auk. Vol. 88, No. 2, 1971, pp. 477-480.
• Secretary's Second Report Harvard College Class of 1905. pp. 180-181; Pp. 226-227.
• Henry W. Fowler : John Treadwell Nichols. In: Copeia . Vol. 1959, No. 1, 1959, p. 83 ( online ).
• David G. Smith, Eric J. Hilton: What Is a Naturalist, Anyway? John Treadwell Nichols In: Copeia 106, No. 1, 2018, pp. 199-202 (biography about John Treadwell Nichols)