CHRONOLOGY
THE LIFE OF
ALEXANDER WETMORE
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1886 born
in North Freedom, Wisconsin, 18 June
1900 wrote first published paper,
"My experience with a Red-headed Woodpecker,"
(Bird-Lore, vol. II, pp. 155-156.
1905-1908, 1910 Assistant, University
of Kansas Museum
1909 Assistant, Colorado Museum
of Natural History
1910-1912 Agent, United States
Bureau of Biological Survey
1910 field work, Wyoming-
1911 field work, Alaska
1911-1912 field work, Porto Rico
1912 Bachelor of Science, University
of Kansas
1912 married
Fay Holloway, 13 October
1913-1923 Assistant Biologist,
United States Bureau of Biological Survey
1914 field work, Utah and California
1914-1915 field work, Utah and
Montana
1916 Master of Science, George
Washington University
1916 birth of daughter, Margaret
Fenwick
1916 field work, Utah
1916 Birds of Porto Rico (U.S.
Dept. Agric. Bull. 326, pp. 1-140)
1917 field work, North Carolina
1917-1918 field work, Arkansas
and Texas
1918 field work, Western United
States
1919 field work, Florida; Arizona
1920 Doctor of Philosophy, George
Washington University-
1920-1921 field work, South America
1921 field work, Georgia
1922 field work, South Carolina;
Minnesota; North Dakota; Pennsylvania; Maryland
1923 in charge of the Tanager Exploring
Expedition to the mid-Pacific islands
1924 Biologist, U.S. Bureau of
Biological Survey
1924-1925 Superintendent, National
Zoological Park
1925-1944 Assistant Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution (in charge of the U.S. National Museum)
1926 Observations on the Birds
of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile (U.S. National Museum,
Bull. 133, pp.1-448)
1926 The Migration of Birds (Harvard
University Press)
1926-1929 President, American Ornithologists'
Union
1927 field work, Haiti and Dominican
Republic
1927 President, Washington Academy
of Sciences
1927 Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Medal, Societe Nationale d'Acclimitation de France
1928 trip to study bird collections
of museums in the western United States
1928-1931 President, Washington
Biologists' Field Club
1928-1952 Trustee, Textile Museum
of Washington
1929-1931 President, Biological
Society of Washington
1930 A Systematic Classification
for the Birds of the World (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 76, art. 24, pp.
1-8). Revised and reprinted in 1934, 1940, 1948, 1951, and 1960.
1930 U.S. Delegate, VII International
Ornithological Congress, Amsterdam; field work, Spain-
1931 The Birds of Haiti and the
Dominican Republic, by Wetmore and B. H. Swales
(U.S. National Museum Bull. 155, pp. 1-483)
1931 field work, Haiti
1931 Otto Herman Medal, Hungarian
Ornithological Society
1931-1957 Chairman, American Ornithologists'
Union Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of
North American Birds
1932 Honorary D.Sc., George Washington
University
1932 field work, western United
States
1933-1976 Trustee, National Geographic
Society
1934 U.S. Delegate, VIII International
Ornithological Congress, Oxford
1936 field work, Guatemala
1937 Field work, Venezuela
1937-1978 Vice Chairman, Acting
Chairman, and Chairman Emeritus, Committee on Research and
Exploration, National Geographic Society
1938 President, Cosmos Club
1938 Chairman of U. S. delegation,
IX International Ornithological Congress, Rouen, France
1939 field work, Mexico
1940 A Check-list of the fossil
birds of North America (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 1-81)
1940 Secretary-General, Eighth
American Scientific Congress
1940 U. S. Representative, Inter-American
Commission of Experts on Nature Protection and Wildlife
Preservation
1940 field work, Costa Rica-
1941 field work, Colombia
1941 Distinguished Service Award,
University of Kansas
1944-1946 President, Explorers
Club
1944, 1946-1966 field work, Panama
1945 Alumni Award for Achievement
in Science, George Washington University
1945-1952 Secretary, Smithsonian
Institution
1945-1952 Vice-Chairman, National
Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
1945-1962 Trustee, George Washington
University
1946 Honorary D.Sc., University
of Wisconsin
1947 Honorary D.Sc., Centre College
of Kentucky
1947-1963 Chairman, Daniel Giraud
Elliot Fund Award Committee, National Academy of Sciences
1948 Chairman, Interdepartmental
Committee on Scientific Research and Development
1948 Orden de Merito, Carlos Manuel
de Cespedes, Cuba
1949-1976 Member, Board of Directors,
Gorgas Memorial Institute for Tropical and Preventive Medicine
1950 President, Academy of Medicine
of Washington, D. C.
1950 President, X International
Ornithological Congress, Uppsala, Sweden-
1951-1955 Home Secretary, National
Academy of Sciences
1953 Death of Fay Holloway Wetmore,
14 February
1953 married
Annie Beatrice Thielen, 16 December
1953-1978 Research Associate, Smithsonian
Institution
1954 field work, Venezuela
1957 Hubbard Medal, National Geographic
Society
1959 Honorary D.Sc., Ripon College
1959 Brewster Medal, American Ornithologists'
Union-
1962 Explorers Club Medal
1963 Treasurer, XVI International
Congress of Zoology
1964 Bartsch Award, Audubon Naturalist
Society
1965 The Birds of the Republic
of Panama, vol. 1 (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 150, pp. 1-483)
1968 The Birds of the Republic
of Panama, vol. 2 (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 150, pt. 2, pp. 1-605)
1969 field work, Netherlands Antilles
1970 Arthur Allen Medal, Cornell
Laboratory of Ornithology-
1972 The Birds of the Republic
of Panama, vol. 3 (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 150, pt. 3, pp. 1-631)
1972 Elliott Coues Award, American
Ornithologists' Union
1973 "Alexander
Wetmore Bridge" dedicated in Panama
1975-1978 Honorary President, American
Ornithologists' Union
1976 Collected Papers in Avian
Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore, Storrs
L. Olson, editor (Smiths. Contrib. to Paleobio., no. 27)
1978
death, Glen Echo, Maryland, 7 December--
postumo
1984 The Birds of the Republic
of Panama, vol. 4 (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 150, pt. 4, pp. 1-670)