| 词条 | Alfred Brazier Howell |
| 释义 |
A. B. Howell was the son of Darius Carpenter Howell, Sr. (1820–1887) and his second wife Katherine Elinor Hyatt Howell. A. B. Howell attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania for four years, graduating in 1905. He spent one year (1905–1906) at Yale University and then received no more formal academic education. In 1910 he moved to California, where he studied the birds of the Channel Islands of California and the Coronado Islands of Baja California. In 1918 he went on a collecting expedition to Arizona.[2] In 1921 he became vice-president of the Cooper Ornithological Society. In 1922 he moved to Washington D.C.. In 1923 and in 1924, he went on collecting expeditions in California. Howell worked from 1923 to 1927 as a scientific assistant with the United States Biological Survey. From 1928 to 1943 he taught anatomy at the Department of Anatomy of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 1929, with Remington Kellogg, he organized the Council for the Conservation of Whales[3] (also involved in the conservation of other marine mammals). Howell was vice-president from 1938 to 1942 and president from 1942 to 1944 of the American Society of Mammalogists. He married Margaret Gray Sherk in 1914.[4] At the Cooper Ornithological Society, A. Brazier Howell, Harry R. Painton, and Frances F. Roberts have cash awards named after them.[5] Selected publications
References1. ^{{cite journal|author=Little, Luther|title=Alfred Brazier Howell, 1886-1961|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|volume=49|issue=4|date=November 1968|pages=732–742|jstor=1378733}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Howell, Alfred Brazier}}2. ^[https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/fbr_item_modsi4616 Howell, A. B., Arizona, May 1918 - September 1918 | Smithsonian Institution Archives] 3. ^{{cite book|author=Burnett, D. Graham|title=The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century|year=2012|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=272|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNmheOs8SRQC&pg=PA272}} 4. ^[https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/auth_per_fbr_eacp575 Howell, A. Brazier (Alfred Brazier), 1886–1961 | Smithsonian Institution Archives] 5. ^{{cite journal|author=von Bloeker, Jr., Jack C.|title=Who were Harry R. Painton, A. Brazier Howell and Frances F. Roberts?|journal=The Condor|volume=95|issue=4|pages=1061–1063|date=November 1993|jstor=1369450}} 6. ^{{cite journal|author=Moment, G. B.|doi=10.1086/394735|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=20|issue=1|date=March 1945|title=Review of Speed in Animals: Their Specialization for Running and Leaping by A. Brazier Howell}} 6 : American mammalogists|American zoologists|Cetologists|The Hill School alumni|1886 births|1961 deaths |
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