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George Henry Hamilton Tate (April 30, 1894 – December 24, 1953) was an English-born American zoologist and botanist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In his lifetime he wrote several books on subjects such as the South American mouse opossums and the mammals of the Pacific and East Asia. BiographyHe was born in London on April 30, 1894.[1] He had a brother, Geoffrey Tate.[1] In 1912 he migrated from England to New York City with his family. From 1912 to 1914 he worked as telegraph operator on Long Island. He then joined the British Army to fight in World War I. At the end of the war, he studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England without taking a degree. He then migrated back to the United States and became a field assistant in mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1927 he completed his B.S. at Columbia University in Manhattan, and became a United States citizen.[2] In September 1927, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, he went to look for Paul Redfern, the missing aviator.[3] In 1931 he completed his M.S. at Columbia University. In 1932 he was promoted to assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1938 he completed a D.Sc. at the University of Montreal. During World War II, he was chief of exploration for the American Rubber Development Corporation in Brazil. In 1942 he was promoted to associate curator at the American Museum of Natural History then promoted to curator in 1946.[2] He died on December 24, 1953 in Morristown, New Jersey.[2][1] Tate is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of South American lizard, Neusticurus tatei.[4] {{botanist|G.H.Tate|Tate, George Henry Hamilton}}References1. ^1 {{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Geoffrey Tate, Ex Museum Aide. Zoologist and Explorer Dies. On Many Expeditions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/22/archives/geoffrey-tate-exmuseum-aide-zoologist-and-explorer-dieson-many.html |quote=[He] accompanied his brother, the late Dr. George H. H. Tate, a mammalogist, on a ... died in 1953, he was curator of mammals of the American Museum of Natural History. ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=July 22, 1964 |accessdate=2013-12-29 }} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |url=http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/TATE1894.htm |title=George Henry Hamilton Tate chronology |date= |accessdate=2013-12-29 |quote= |publisher=Western Kentucky University |location= }} 3. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Explorer In Brazil To Seek Paul Redfern. Backer of Expedition Cables Tate to Use Native Runners in Hunt for Georgian Flier |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/09/11/archives/explorer-in-brazil-to-seek-paul-redfern-backer-of-expedition-cables.html |quote=G.H.H. Tate, head of an expedition to the high plateau region of Mount Roraima in South America, was directed yesterday by cable to search for Paul Redfern, the missing aviator who set out from Brunswick, Ga., to fly to Brazil, it was announced yesterday by the American Museum of Natural History. |newspaper=New York Times |date=September 11, 1927 |accessdate=2013-12-29 }} 4. ^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Tate", p. 261). External links
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