Tarleton Hoffman Bean
Tarleton Hoffman Bean (born October 8, 1846 in Bainbridge , Pennsylvania , † December 28, 1916 ) was an American ichthyologist .
Tarleton Hoffman Bean was born to George Bean and Mary Smith Bean on October 8, 1846 in Bainbridge. He attended the state school near Millersville and taught for several years after graduating in 1866. In 1874 he worked for the US Commission on Fish and Fisheries on the Connecticut coast. In the same year he began his medical studies at Columbian College , which he successfully completed in 1876. However, he did not work as a doctor. His passion was science.
In 1877 he got a position as assistant ichthyology at the Smithsonian Institution and in 1879 was appointed first curator of fish. In 1883 he finally made his dream come true and graduated from Indiana University with a Master of Science degree . From 1895 to 1898 he ran the New York Aquarium.
During his field studies for the US Commission on Fish and Fisheries, he discovered and described numerous new fish species. Together with his colleague George Brown Goode , he published several scientific papers, including Oceanic Ichthyology (1896).
Honors
In 1890, Rosa and Carl H. Eigenmann named the genus Tarletonbeania from the lantern fish family (Myctophidae) after him.
Other species named after Tarleton Hoffman Bean are:
Works
A selection of his works:
- Oceanic Ichthyology (1896; with George Brown Goode)
- Catalog of the Fishes of Long Island (1901)
- Food and Game Fishes of New York (1902)
- Catalog of the Fishes of New York (1903)
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bean, Tarleton Hoffman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ichthyologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bainbridge , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1916 |