Edward Alphonso Goldman ( born Edward Alphonso Goldman , real surname Galtman , born Goltman ; July 7, 1873 , Illinois - September 2, 1946 , Washington , DC) - American zoologist.
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Goldman " . Personal page on IPNI website The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Goldman " . |
Grew in Nebraska and California . From the age of 17 he worked in vineyards in the vicinity of Fresno . In 1891 he entered as an assistant to Edward William Nelson , with whom he worked for four years on his first zoological expedition in Mexico and then continued to study Mexican fauna under the guidance of Nelson until 1906; over 14 years, two researchers assembled a collection that included 17,400 mammals and 12,400 birds [2] .
In the years 1911-1913. worked in the Panama Canal zone, then until 1917 in Arizona . In the years 1918-1919. He served in the sanitary service of the American Expeditionary Force in France, engaged in the fight against rodents, and then until 1937 he was listed as a reserve officer with the rank of major. After returning to the United States until 1943 he worked at the Bureau of Biological Oversight of the US Department of Agriculture (now the US Fish and Wildlife Conservation Service ), in 1925-1928. Head of the Department of Natural Reserves; since 1928, Head of the Department of Biological Research. In 1927-1929 President of the Biological Society of Washington , in 1946, President of the American Society of Mammalogists .
Goldman owns about 200 scientific papers, including the Review of Wood Rats from the Genus Neotoma ( English Revision of the Wood Rats of the Genus Neotoma ; 1910), and the Rice Rats of North America ; 1918 ), “Mammals of Panama” ( Eng. Mammals of Panama ; 1920), “Wolves of North America” ( Eng. The Wolves of North America ; 1944). Posthumously published " Puma : The Mysterious American Cat" ( Eng. The Puma: Mysterious American Cat ; 1946) and "Biological Investigations in Mexico" ( Eng. Biological Investigations in Mexico ; 1951). Goldman first described many species and subspecies of the American fauna, including the Barbados raccoon , Mexican wolf , mouse possums Marmosa zeledoni and Marmosa isthmica , presumably extinct subspecies of the decorated shrew ( Sorex ornatus juncensis ).
Died of a stroke . Buried at Arlington National Cemetery .
A number of animals are named in honor of Goldman, including the Goldman's forest hamster, Goldman 's bagged jumper , Sceloporus goldmani iguana and the monotypic hummingbird genus of Goldmania .
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- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. - JHU Press, 2009 .-- P. 157-158.