Leverett Allen Adams

Leverett Allen Adams (also Leverett A. Adams ; born September 23, 1877 in Lawrence , Kansas , † August 18, 1976 in La Jolla , California ) was an American zoologist and museum curator .

Life

Family and education

Leverett Allen Adams, son of James W. Adams and Mary Janes Pierson Adams, graduated from Lawrence High School. Adams then turned to the study of biology at the University of Kansas , in 1903 acquired the academic degree of a Bachelor of Arts , in 1906 a Master of Arts . In 1915 he received his doctorate from Columbia University to the Doctor of Philosophy .

The Congregationalist Leverett Allen Adams, supporters of the Republicans , married on 27 November 1917 Mary Loise Moss. This marriage resulted in the children Leverett Allen junior, Virginia Louise and Mary Ladd. Adams spent his old age in La Jolla , California, where he died in the summer of 1976 just before he was 99 years old.

Professional background

Leverett Allen Adams was employed as a museum assistant in the Department of Zoology at the University of Kansas in 1903. In 1906 Adams moved as Assistant Professor of Biology to the State Teachers College in Greeley in the US state of Colorado , in 1914 he was appointed head of the Department of Biology. In 1921 Leverett Allen Adams accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , in 1935 he was appointed Associate Professor , 1938 Full Professor , 1939 Curator of the Natural History Museum, and in 1948 he retired .

He became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the American Society of Zoologists, the American Association of Museums, the Association of Midwest Museums, the Acacia Fraternity (Ακακία), the Sigma Xi and Beta Theta Pi were chosen. Adams published numerous articles in scientific journals. His research focus was on vertebrates and comparative anatomy .

Publications

• Description of the skull and separate cranial bones of the wolf-eel (Anarrhichtys ocellatus). in: University of Kansas science bulletin, v. 4, no. 16. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 1908
• A memoir on the phylogeny of the jaw muscles in recent and fossil vertebrates. in: Studies in comparative osteology and myology, no. 2. Ph. D. Columbia University 1915, New York, 1919
• Necturus; a laboratory manual. Macmillan, New York, 1926
• A Memoir on the Phylogeny of the Faw Muscles in Recent and Fossil Vertebrates. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., 1942
• together with Samuel Eddy: Comparative anatomy; an introduction to the vertebrates. Wiley, New York, 1949

literature

• Beta Theta Pi: The Beta Theta Pi, Volume 67, Issue 6. Beta Theta Pi, 1940, pp. 530, 531.
• Illinois State Archaeological Society: Journal of the Illinois State Archaeological Society. Volume V. Illinois State Archaeological Society, Springfield, Ill., 1947, pp. 18, 19.
• Who was who in America. Volume V: 1969-1973. Marquis Who's Who. New Providence, NJ., 1973, p. 3.
• LG Pine, Edward Martell, Alberta Lawrence: Who was who among English and European authors, 1931-1949: based on entries which first appeared in The Author's and writer's who's who & reference guide originally compiled by Edward Martell and LG Pine and in Who's who among living authors of older nations, originally compiled by Alberta Lawrence. in: Gale composite biographical dictionary series, no. 2 .; Omnigraphics book .. Gale Research Co., Detroit, 1978, p. 8.
• Robert A. Croker: Pioneer Ecologist: The Life and Work of Victor Ernest Shelford, 1877-1968. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1991, p. 183.

Web links

• Leverett A. Adams Papers, 1919-61 in: University of Illinois Archives; Retrieved August 3, 2016