Chapman, Frank Michler (1864-1945)
Life Chronology
--born in West Englewood, New Jersey, on 12 June 1864.
--1880-1886: works for a bank in New York City
--1886-1888: collecting expeditions in Florida
--1888-1908: associate curator of ornithology and mammalogy, AMNH
--1895: publishes his Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America
--1897: president, Linnaean Society of New York
--1899-1934: editor of Bird-Lore (also founder)
--1907: publishes his Warblers of North America
--1908: made curator of ornithology, AMNH
--1911: president, American Ornithologists' Union
--1912: awarded the first Linnaean Society Medal
--1913: honorary Sc.D., Brown University
--1916: publishes his The Travels of Birds
--1917: publishes his The Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia
--1918: receives the Elliot medal of the National Academy of Sciences
--1920: made curator in charge in the Dept. of Birds, AMNH
--1921: elected to the National Academy of Sciences
--1921-1925: president, John Burroughs Memorial Association
--1926: publishes his The Distribution of Bird-life in Ecuador
--1928: awarded the Roosevelt medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association
--1929: publishes his My Tropical Air Castle
--1933: publishes his Autobiography of a Bird-Lover
--1942: retires from the AMNH
--dies in New York City, on 15 November 1945.
Bibliography
As well as numerous papers in scientific journals and magazines such as the National Geographic Magazine, books and major reports authored by Chapman include:1895 Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America
1900 Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds
1900 Bird Studies with a Camera
1903 Color Key to North American Birds
1903 The Economic Value of Birds to the State
1907 Warblers of North America
1908 Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist
1910 The Birds of the Vicinity of New York City: A guide to the Local Collection
1916 The Travels of Birds
1917 The Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia
1919 Our Winter Birds
1921 The Habit Groups of North American Birds
1921 The Distribution of Bird Life in the Urubamba Valley of Peru. A report of the birds collected
-by the Yale University - National Geographic Society's expedition
1926 The Distribution of Bird-life in Ecuador
1929 My Tropical Air Castle
1931 The Upper Zonal Bird-Life of Mts Roraima and Duida
1933 Autobiography of a Bird-Lover
1934 What Bird is That?
1938 Life in an Air Castle: Nature Studies in the Tropics
Visitors' guide to the local collection of birds in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City : with an annotated list of the birds known to occur within fifty miles of New York City (1894) ;
Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, with keys to the species, and descriptions of their plumages, nests, and eggs, their distribution and migrations[1] (1895) ;
Bird-Life, a Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds[2] (1897) ;
Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer[3] (1900) ;
Handbook of birds of eastern North America, with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests, and eggs[4] (1902) ;
A Color Key to North American Birds (1903) ;
The Economic Value of Birds to the State (1903) ;
The Warblers of North America[5] (1907) ;
Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist[6] (1908) ;
Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature[7] (1912) ;
Color key to North American Birds, with bibliographical appendix[8] (1912) ;
The Travels of Birds our birds and their journeys to strange lands[9] (1916) ;
The Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia (1917), Our Winter Birds (1918) ;
Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds[10] (1919) ;
What Bird is That ? (1920) ;
Birds of Urubamba Valley, Peru (1921) ;
The Distribution of Bird-Life in Ecuador (1926) ;
My Tropical Air Castle (1926) ;
Autobiography off a Bird-Lover (1933) ;
Life in an Air Castle (1938).
Outre son fonction déditeur assistant à la revue The Auk (à partir de 1894), il est le fondateur et léditeur du magazine Bird-Lore en 1899, le journal de la Société nationale Audubon, consacrée à la protection des oiseaux. Il joue un grand rôle dans la promotion de lobservation des oiseaux dans la nature.