Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1855, Dec. 5 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1872 | Naturalist, Hayden Survey of the territories |
| 1877 | Published A Review of the Birds of Connecticut. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor |
| 1879 | M.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1883 | Surgeon, Proteus (Bark) |
| 1884 | Published Mammals of the Adirondacks. New York: L. S. Foster |
| 1885-1910 | Head, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammology (later the U.S. Division of Biological Survey and then the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey) |
| 1886 | Married Virginia Elizabeth Gosnel |
| 1889 | Participated in U.S. Biological Survey to the San Francisco Mountains, Ariz. |
| 1891 | Participated in U.S. Biological Survey of Death Valley, Calif. Appointed to commission to investigate the problems of pelagic sealing in the Bering Sea |
| 1891-1892 | President, Biological Society of Washington |
| 1898 | Participated in U.S. Biological Survey of Mount Shasta, Calif. |
| 1899 | Participated in Harriman Alaska Expedition |
| 1900-1902 | President, American Ornithologists' Union |
| 1905 | Published "Indian Population of California" |
| 1907 | Published "Distribution and Classification of the Mewan Indians of California" |
| 1910-1936 | Conducted biological and ethnological investigations with California Indian tribes |
| 1910 | Published Dawn of the World. Cleveland: A. H. Clark |
| 1917-1925 | Chairman, U.S. Board on Geographic Names |
| 1919-1921 | President, American Society of Mammalogists |
| 1920-1921 | President, Anthropological Society of Washington |
| 1924-1925 | President, American Society of Naturalists |
| 1928 | Published An-nik-a-del, the History of the Universe, as told by the Modes-se Indians of California. Boston: Stratford Co. |
| 1942, Mar. 19 | Died, Berkeley, Calif. |