Allen, Joel Asaph (1838-1921)
mammalogy, ornithology, zoogeography

 
Life Chronology
 

--born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 19 July 1838.

--1858-1862: attends Wilbraham Academy, Springfield

--1859-1861: collects and mounts some 300 specimens of birds and mammals

--1861: sells his zoological collection to further his education

--1862: enrolls in Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University

--1865-1866: takes part in the Thayer expedition to Brazil

--1867: made curator of mammals and birds, Museum of Comparative Zoology,

            Harvard University

--1868-1869: collecting expedition to Florida

--1868-1880: curator of reptiles, birds and mammals, Boston Society of Natural

                       History

--1871: publishes "On the Mammals and Winter Birds of East Florida" in the Bulletin

            of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College

--1871-1872: collects bird and mammal specimens in Great Plains and Rockies

--1873: collecting in the Yellowstone, Montana, region

--1876: elected to the National Academy of Sciences; publishes his The American

             Bisons, Living and Extinct

--1876-1883: editor, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club

--1877: publishes "The Influence of Physical Conditions in the Genesis of Species" in

            Radical Review (including his best known elucidation of "Allen's Rule")

--1880: publishes his History of North American Pinnipeds

--1883: co-founds the American Ornithologists' Union

--1883-1891: president, American Ornithologists' Union

--1884-1912: editor, The Auk

--1885-1907: curator of birds and mammals, American Museum of Natural History,

                       New York

--1886: assists in drafting the American Ornithologists' Union's Code of Nomenclature

--1886: co-incorporates the first national Audubon Society, New York

--1886: Ph.D. (honorary), Indiana University

--1889: made editor-in-chief of all the AMNH's zoological publications

--1890-1897: president, Linnaean Society of New York

--1903: receives the Walker Grand Prize, Boston Society of Natural History

--1907-1921: curator of mammals, American Museum of Natural History, New York

--1910-1921: member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

--1916: receives the gold medal of the Linnaean Society of New York

--dies at Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, on 29 August 1921.

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