Joel Asaph Allen
1838–1921
American zoologist. Studied with Louis Agassiz and accompanied him to Brazil in 1865. Led an expedition to study birds in eastern Florida, 1868–9. Curator of birds and mammals, Harvard Museum of Comparative Anatomy, 1867–85. Helped found the Nuttall Ornithological Club in 1876 and the American Ornithologists’ Union in 1883. Curator of ornithology and mammology, American Museum of Natural History, 1885–1907; of mammals, 1907–21; of invertebrates, 1887–90; of fish and reptiles, 1887–1901.
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ANB
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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