Samuel Frederick Hildebrand

Samuel Frederick Hildebrand (born August 15, 1883 in Zoar , Pike County , Indiana , † March 16, 1949 in Washington, DC ) was an American ichthyologist .

life and work

Hildebrand was the son of parents of German origin who immigrated to the United States in 1864. From 1908 to 1910 he worked as an assistant to Seth Eugene Meek at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago . In 1910 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana State Normal School . In 1910 he became a research fellow at the US Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, DC, where he stayed until 1914. From 1910 to 1912 he undertook two collective expeditions to Panama with Meek, about which he published the work The Fishes of the Fresh Waters of Panama in 1916 and the work The Marine Fishes of Panama in 1923 .

From 1914 to 1918 he was director of the US Fisheries Biological Station in Beaufort, North Carolina. In 1918 he studied mosquito control by small fish in Augusta, Georgia. From 1918 to 1919 he was director of the US Fisheries Biological Station in Key West, Florida. From 1919 to 1925 he worked as an ichthyologist at the Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, DC From 1920 to 1924 he was an advisor and investigative officer with the United States Public Health Service. In 1924 he went on a collective expedition to Central America with the fish farmer Fred J. Foster. From 1925 to 1931 he was again director of the US Fisheries Biological Station in Beaufort, North Carolina. From 1931 to 1949 he worked as a senior ichthyologist at the Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, DC In 1935 and 1937 he undertook two further collective expeditions to Panama. In 1949 he was posthumously honored with the Award for Distinguished Service by the United States Department of the Interior .

Hildebrand's main research interests were the way of life of turtles, mosquito regulation and the way of life of fish larvae, the early development of North American fish, studies of the Central American ichthyofauna , marine fish in eastern North America, Panama and Peru, and revisions within the herring family . Hildebrand was also involved in the standard work Fishes of the Western North Atlantic .

Works (selection)

• The Fishes of the Fresh Waters of Panama, 1916 (with Seth Eugene Meek)
• The Marine Fishes of Panama, 1923 (with Seth Eugene Meek)
• Fishes of Chesapeake Bay, 1928 (with William Charles Schroeder)
• Cold-blooded Vertebrates: Part I. Fishes., 1930 (with Charles Whitney Gilmore & Doris Mable Cochran )
• A Descriptive Catalog of the Shore Fishes of Peru, 1946

literature

• Elmer Higgins: Samuel Frederick Hildebrand as a Government Scientist In: Copeia. Vol. 1950, No. 1 (Mar. 30, 1950), pp. 8-11.
• Leonard P. Schultz: Samuel Frederick Hildebrand In: Copeia. Vol. 1950, No. 1 (Mar. 30, 1950), pp. 2-7.

Web links

• Chrono-Biographical Sketches Hildebrand, Samuel Frederick (United States 1883-1949)