请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 William Alanson Bryan
释义

  1. Life and work

  2. References

William Alanson Bryan (23 December 1875 - 18 June 1942) was an American zoologist, ornithologist, naturalist and museum director.

Life and work

Bryan was born on a farm in New Sharon, Iowa. After his education, and his zoology studies, he graduated in 1896 from Iowa State College. In 1900 he came to Hawaii and took the position of curator of ornithology at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.[1] In June of the same year he married Ruth May Goss, who died in 1904. In 1907 he left the museum and founded the Pacific Scientific Institution, which aimed to promote biological and anthropological research in the Pacific. He then became a professor of zoology at the Faculty of the College of Hawai'i. In 1909 he married Elizabeth Letson Bryan (1874-1919), who worked as mussels and snails collector. Bryan unsuccessfully ran for governor of the Territory of Hawaii in 1913 and 1917.[2] After his wife's death he finished his work at the College of Hawai'i and went to South America. In January 1920, he undertook an expedition to Easter Island.

From 1921 until his retirement in 1940 he was director of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art.

{{Authority control}}

References

1. ^{{Cite journal|last=Bryan|first=Edwin H. Jr.|date=April 1968|title=Some Pacific Scientists I Have Known|url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op24-0.pdf|journal=B. P. Bishop Museum - Occasional Papers|volume=XXIV|pages=x|via=}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/rapanui/bryan.html|title=Rapanui: Edmunds and Bryan Photograph Collection -- William A. Bryan|last=Library|first=Special Collections, University of Hawaii at Manoa Hamilton|website=libweb.hawaii.edu|access-date=2017-06-20}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bryan, William}}

6 : Museum directors|American zoologists|American naturalists|American ornithologists|1875 births|1942 deaths

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/13 9:31:42