William Tufts Brigham

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William Tufts Brigham (born May 24, 1841 in Boston , Massachusetts , † January 30, 1926 in Honolulu ) was an American geologist , botanist , ethnologist and museum director. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Brigham ".

William Tufts Brigham

Life

Brigham's father, William Brigham, was a lawyer in Boston. After attending the Boston Latin School , Brigham graduated from Harvard University with a law degree and graduated with a master's degree in 1862 . In 1864 he studied botany and from 1864 to 1865 he accompanied the botanist Horace Mann junior on botanical excursions to the Hawaiian islands. In 1867 he was a barrister admitted. In 1892 he became the first curator of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and from 1898 until his retirement in 1918 he was the first director of the museum.

Brigham was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1869), the California Academy of Sciences, and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences .

Taxa named after Brigham

Horace Mann junior named Gardenia brighamii and Asa Gray named the genus Brighamia in honor of William Tufts Brigham.

Works

  • Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands (with Sanford Dole ), 1869
  • Cast catalog of antique sculpture; With an introduction to the study of ornament , 1874
  • Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (with Charles Bernard Nordhoff ) ( Online ), 1875
  • Guatemala: The Land of the Quetzal , 1887
  • Hawaiian feather work , 1899
  • An index to the islands of the Pacific Ocean: a handbook to the chart on the walls of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History , 1900
  • A handbook for visitors to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History ( Online ), 1903
  • Additional notes on Hawaiian feather work , 1903
  • The ancient Hawaiian house , 1908
  • The volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii: their variously recorded history to the present time , 1909

literature

  • Roger G. Rose: A museum to instruct and delight: William T. Brigham and the founding of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication) . Greenwood Press (September 1982), ISBN 978-0-313-22061-6

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personal data
SURNAME Brigham, William Tufts
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brigham, William T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist, botanist, ethnologist, and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1926
Place of death Honolulu , Hawaii