Charles Henry Gilbert ( Eng. Charles Henry Gilbert ; 1859-1928) - American ichthyologist.
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Gilbert " . |
Biography
In 1883, Gilbert graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington . At first he worked as an assistant at his university (1880–1884), then as an assistant professor of biology at the University of Cincinnati (1884–1889), then again in zoology at Bloomington (1889–1891), and has since been professor of zoology at Stanford University . In 1925 he retired. In 1880–98, he was a member of the American Fisheries Commission, and from 1909 to 1927, he was a US salmon specialist. On the American research vessel Albatross, he repeatedly participated in trips to Hawaii in 1902 and to Japan in 1906, where he studied the northern part of the Pacific Ocean as an ichthyologist and described many new species (altogether 620). Together with David Jordan in 1882, he published a book on freshwater and marine fish, Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. Gilbert formed environmental views very early and in the 1920s he warned against threatening overfishing and foresaw the extinction of populations of Pacific salmon ( Oncorhynchus ).
Literature
- Dunn, J. Richard (1996) Charles H. Gilbert, pioneer ichthyologist and fishery biologist.- Marine Fisheries Review 58: 1-2