Ned Dearborn

Ned Dearborn (born November 24, 1865 in Alton , New Hampshire , † January 16, 1948 in Hampton , Virginia ) was an American biologist .

Life

Dearborn was the son of Josiah and Sara Morrill Dearborn, nee Haines. In 1891 he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Dartmouth College . He then worked for two years as a teacher at a state school, then as a supervisor in the lens department of the Lord Brothers Optical Company in Tilton , New Hampshire, and finally for four years as a teacher at New Hampshire College. In 1899 he graduated with a Master of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire . In 1901 he received his doctorate from Dartmouth College to the Doctor of Science . From 1901 to 1909 he was assistant curator in the ornithological department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. From 1909 to 1920 he was an assistant biologist for the United States Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 1920 he founded the Dearborn fur farm in Sackets Harbor, New York , which he ran until early 1948. From 1928 to 1932 he was an assistant professor of forest zoology at the University of Michigan Forestry School .

Dearborn was a member of the Cooper Ornithological Club , the American Genetic Association, the Biological Society of Washington, and the American Society of Mammalogists .

Dearborn described the subspecies Amazilia cyanura guatemalae the Blauschwanzamazilie , the subspecies Chamaetylas poliocephala akeleyae of Braunbrust-brown tail , the subspecies Regulus satrapa Ciarus of Indian gold cockerel , the subspecies Diglossa baritula montana the Zimtbauch hook beak and the subspecies Turdus assimilis rubicundus the white-throated thrush .

Dearborn was also active as a writer. His contributions include Catalog of a collection of birds from Guatemala (1907), The English Sparrow as a Pest (1912), The Domesticated Silver Fox (1917), Rabbit Raising (1920), Bird Houses and how to Build Them (1923) and Foods of some predatory fur-bearing animals in Michigan (1932).

In 1894 Dearborn married Helen Josephine Hills. From this marriage a son and a daughter were born.

Dedication names

Dearborn was honored in the epithets of two taxa that are currently invalid. Vireolanius pulchellus dearborni W. de W. Miller & Griscom , 1931 with the nominate form of Smaragdvireos and Cyanocompsa parellina dearborni A. R. Phillips , was founded in 1991 with the nominate the glaze Cardinal synonymised .

literature

• Anonymous: Necrology In: The Michigan Alumnus , Volume 54, September 25, 1948, p. 521
• Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

Web links

• Short biography at Prabook