Samuel Washington Woodhouse

Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1847)

Samuel Washington Woodhouse (born June 27, 1821 in Philadelphia , † November 23, 1904 ) was an American doctor and naturalist .

Life

Samuel Washington Woodhouse was born in Philadelphia to Captain Samuel and Matilda Roberts Woodhouse. His grandfather, William Woodhouse, immigrated from Alnwick in 1766 . He attended private schools in Philadelphia and West Haven Connecticut . At a young age he became interested in natural history and was admitted to the holdings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, founded in 1812 . There he met some of the great naturalists, among them George Leib Harrison , Samuel Morton and Paul Beck Goddard know. He was elected a member of the Academy in 1845. In the early 1840s, Woodhouse worked with his brother on their own farm. At the same time he did research for the Academy and put together a collection of birds from Chester County. Woodhouse later studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1847. He then got a job at Philadelphia Hospital.

Woodhouse was named physician and naturalist for the US Army Corps of Topographical Engineers's survey of the boundary of the Creek Nation in the Indian Territory in 1849 . The research group under Lorenzo Sitgreaves traveled in its first season from Fort Gibson to what is now Town Quay in Oklahoma , in its second year under the leadership of Isaac Carle Woodruff to the west to the vicinity of the Dewey-Major border line and back along the Canadian Rivers . During both expeditions, Woodhouse collected numerous specimens of the region's flora and fauna, including previously unknown species. He donated a large part of his collection to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University , other parts of the Smithsonian Institution and the New York Botanical Garden .

His descriptions of plants and animals can be found in the reports of Sitgreaves and Woodruff and in the papers he published for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University . His records also contain information about the Indians living there, as well as observations of natural history, the landscape and the climate.

Woodhouse accompanied the Sitgreaves expedition to the Zuñi in 1851 on the Zuñi River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River . There he was bitten by a rattlesnake that he wanted to catch and kill for his collection. He was also hit in the leg by a Mohave arrow . Other members of the excursion were also seriously injured and some died. Woodhouse reached Camp Independence in late November near the confluence of the Gila River and the Colorado River . From there they traveled to San Diego and San Francisco . He traveled back to Philadelphia via Nicaragua .

He joined Ephraim George Squier's expedition to Honduras in 1853 . He then worked as a doctor in Philadelphia.

In 1872 he married Sara A. Peck and they had two children together. Samuel Washington Woodhouse died in Philadelphia on November 23, 1904. His grave is in the Saint James the Less Episcopal Churchyard in Philadelphia.

Discoveries and honors

Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1895)

Samuel Washington Woodhouse discovered many previously unknown species on his research trips, among them the Desert pocket mouse Chaetodipus penicillatus , the Ord's kangaroo rat Dipodomys ordii or the Aberthörnchen Sciurus aberti .

Spencer Fullerton Baird named the songbird Cyanocitta woodhousii after him and Charles Frédéric Girard named a toad Bufo woodhousii . Baird and Girard also named a snake Nerodia woodhousii ; however, this species was already named and was renamed Nerodia erythrogaster .

Another snake, Tropidonotus woodhousii , later renamed Nerodia erythrogaster transversa , was named after him by Edward Hallowell and John Lawrence Le Conte named the beetle Dicerca woodhousii , later Psiloptera drummondi , after him.

The aster woodhousei was named after him by Elmer Otis Wooton .

Web links

Commons : Samuel Washington Woodhouse - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Woodhouse, Samuel Washington | Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. In: okhistory.org. Retrieved November 1, 2015 .
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ S. W. Woodhouse: A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of SW Woodhouse, 1849-1850 . University of Oklahoma Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8061-2805-4 ( books.google.com ).
^ Samuel W. Woodhouse collection, 1844-1932. In: azarchivesonline.org. Retrieved November 1, 2015 .
↑ Keir Brooks Sterling: Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997, ISBN 978-0-313-23047-9 ( books.google.com ).

personal data
SURNAME	Woodhouse, Samuel Washington
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American doctor and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH	November 23, 1904
Place of death	Philadelphia

[ohk-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Woodhouse, Samuel Washington | Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. In: okhistory.org. Retrieved November 1, 2015 .

[NIT-2] A ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ S. W. Woodhouse: A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of SW Woodhouse, 1849-1850 . University of Oklahoma Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8061-2805-4 ( books.google.com ).

[3] Samuel W. Woodhouse collection, 1844-1932. In: azarchivesonline.org. Retrieved November 1, 2015 .

[4] Keir Brooks Sterling: Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997, ISBN 978-0-313-23047-9 ( books.google.com ).