Allen, Glover Morrill (1879-1942)

Allen, Glover Morrill (1879-1942)
mammalogy, ornithology

Life Chronology

--born in Walpole, New Hampshire, on 8 December 1879.

--1901: A.B., Harvard University

--1901-1927: librarian, Boston Society of Natural History

--1901-1912: secretary, Nuttall Ornithological Club

--1901: publishes The Birds of Massachussetts, with R. H. Howe

--1903: A.M., Harvard University

--1903-1931: various collecting trips, to the Bahama Islands (1903?), Labrador (1906), East

Africa (1909), West Indies (1910), Africa (1912), Africa (1926), Brazil (1929), Australia (1931)
--1904: Ph.D., Harvard University

--1906-1907: editor, American Naturalist

--1907: hired to oversee mammal collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

--1911: publishes his Mammals of the West Indies

--1919: charter member of the American Society of Mammalogists

--1919-1942: president, Nuttall Ornithological Club

--1924: hired as lecturer in zoology, Harvard University

--1925-1942: curator of mammals, Museum of Comparative Zoology

--1925: publishes his Birds and Their Attributes

--1927: vice-president, Boston Society of Natural History

--1927-1929: president, American Society of Mammalogists

--1928: promoted to associate professor of zoology, Harvard University

--1936-1942: editor of The Auk

--1938: promoted to professor of zoology, Harvard University

--1938-1940: publishes his The Mammals of China and Mongolia

--1939: publishes his Bats

--dies at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 15 February 1942.

--1942: posthumously publishes his Extinct and Vanishing Mammals of the Western Hemisphere

Cronologia Ornitologica