Grinnell, Joseph (1877-1939)
Life Chronology
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--born in the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Indian Agency near Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
.on 27 February 1877.
--1885: Grinnell family moves to Pasadena, CA (in 1888 to Carlisle, PA; in 1891
.back to Pasadena)
--1896: collecting expedition to southeastern Alaska
--1897: B.A., Throop Polytechnic Institute (now California Institute of Technology)
--1897-1898: assistant instructor in zoology, Throop Polytechnic Institute
--1898-1899: accompanies a gold-seeking expedition to Alaska, collecting 700 birds
.and as many eggs
--1900: assistant in embryology, Hopkins Laboratory, Stanford University
--1901: M.A., Stanford University; becomes youngest fellow elected to American
.Ornithologists' Union
--1901-1902: ornithology instructor, Stanford University
--1903-1905: biology instructor, Throop Polytechnic Institute
--1904-1907: summers spent in fieldwork in Southern California
--1905-1908: professor of biology, Throop Polytechnic Institute
--1906-1939: editor of The Condor
--1908-1939: founding director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of
.California
--1910: fieldwork along the Lower Colorado River region
--1910-1915: opposes California laws protecting wild animals
--1911-1939: librarian, California Academy of Science
--1913: Ph.D., Stanford University
--1913-1917: assistant professor of zoology, University of California, Berkeley
--1914: publishes "An Account of the Mammals and Birds of the Lower Colorado
.Valley with Especial Reference to the Distributional Problems Presented" in
.University of California Publications in Zoology
--1917-1920: associate professor of zoology, University of California, Berkeley
--1918: publishes his The Game Birds of California, with H. C. Bryant & T. I. Storer
--1919: made a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences (council member,
.1911-1919 and 1934-1937)
--1919-1939: member of the Board of Directors, American Society of Mammalogists
--1920-1939: professor of zoology, University of California, Berkeley
--1921-1936: co-editor, University of California Publications in Zoology
--1924: publishes his Animal Life in the Yosemite, with Tracy Storer
--1924-1929: fieldwork in the Lassen Peak region
--1929-1932: president, American Ornithologists' Union
--1937: publishes his Fur-bearing Mammals of California, with J. S. Dixon & J. M.
.Linsdale
--1937-1938: president, American Society of Mammologists
--1937-1939: member of the Advisory Committee of the Wildlife Society
--1938-1939: president of the Board of Governors, Cooper Ornithological Club
--dies at Berkeley, California, on 29 May 1939.Additional Information
--The Condor 42(1) (1940): 3-34.
--Journal of Mammalogy 20(4) (1939): 409-417.
--Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 5 (1972).
--American National Biography, Vol. 9 (1999).
--Journal of Wildlife Management 3(4) (1939): 366-368.
--The Auk 59(2) (1942): 269-285.
--Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists
.(1997).