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Uhler, Philip Reese
Curator, MCZ; Meisel

Howard, L. O. 1913. Philip Reese Uhler. Entomological News, vol. 24, pp. 433-439.

Ignaciuk, S. 1997. Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists, pp. 791-792.

Mallis, Arnold. 1971. American Entomologists. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 549 p.

Schwarz, E. A., O. Heidemann, and N. Banks. 1914. Life and Writings of Philip Reese Uhler. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washingon, vol. 16, pp. 1-7.

Underwood, William Lyman 1864-1929
b,d, Belmont; Businessman, photographer; Lecturer on bacteriologist in biology dept. at MIT; Mosquito extermination; AOU

American Men of Science, vol. 3

Upham, Warren 1850-1934
b, Amherst, NH; d, St. Paul, MN; Dartmouth, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1894, D.Sc., 1906

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

Upton, James

Dexter, R. W. 1980. Natural history at the Essex Institute, 1848-1898. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 116, pp. 21-33 [mentioned p. 24].

Va

Van Dyke, George Noel

Van Dyke, George Noel. 1902. Gamelands of Maine: a little pocket guide for the angler, field sportsman, naturalist, vacationist, and outdoor photographer. Richmond Hill, L.I.: The Nassau Press, [91] p. ill.

Van Name, Willard Gibbs 1872-
b, New Haven; Yale, PhD, 1898; Ascidians of New England

American Men of Science, vol. 3

Van Vleck, Balfour H.
Marine Biological Laboratory; Instructor and assistant in A. Hyatt's Annisquam laboratory

Dexter, R. W. 1974. From Penikese to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole: The role of Agassiz's students. Essex Institute Historical Collection, 110: 151-161.

Dexter, R. W. 1986. Two centuries of naturalists on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 122, no. 3, 246-258 [mentioned p. 252].

Maienschein, Jane. 1989. 100 years exploring life, 1888-1988: the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, xvi, 192 p. [mentioned p. 20].

Vaughan, Elizabeth Russell (Mrs. Henry Goodwin Vaughan) 1871-1949
b, Boston, MA; d, South Berwick, ME; Buried in Mt. Auburn; Country homes in Sherborn, MA, and South Berwick; Nature and historic protection; Member: Maine Audubon Society National Audubon Society, Save the Redwoods League, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; AOU

Verrill, Addison Emory 1839-1926
9 Feb. 1839-10 Dec. 1926; b, Greenwood, ME; d, Santa Barbara, CA; Yale, AM, 1867; Assistant, MCZ, 186-64; Professor, Yale, 1864-1907

American Men of Science, vol. 3

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.

Coe, W. R. 1927. Addison Emory Verrill and his contributions to zoology. American Journal of Science, ser. 5, vol. 13 (May), pp. 377-87. Portrait, bibliography

Coe, W. R. 1927. Addison Emory Verrill: pioneer zoologist. Science, n.s. vol. 66 (July 8), pp. 28-29.

Coe, W. R. 1927. Addison Emory Verrill: the life and work of Yale's first professor of zoology. Yale Alumni Weekly, vol. 36 (June 19), pp. 1053-1054.

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Dexter, R. W. 1997. Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists, pp. 796-798.

Johnson, C. W. 1927. The Nautilus, vol. 40, pp. 111-112.

National cyclopaedia of American biography. (NY: J.T. White, 1898-1984), vol. 3, pp. 100-101 (1893).

Science, n.s., vol. 41 (1915), pp. 747-748.

Smith, G. D. 1907. Addison Emory Verrill. Yale Sc. Monthly, vol. 13, pp. 187-190. Portrait.

Verrill, G. E. 1958. The Ancestry, Life and Work of Addison E. Verrill of Yale University. Santa Barbara, CA: Pacific Coast Publ. Co., 99 pp.

Primary Works

Catalogue of the reptiles and batrachians found in the vicinity of Norway, Oxford Co. Maine. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. IX. May, 1863. Boston, 1863.

Report on the Cephalopods of the Northeastern Coast of America; Parts 1, 2. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 5, pp. 177-257, 14 pls.; 1879; pp. 259-446, 28 pls. 1881. ????????

Report upon the Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard Sound and the Adjacent Waters ... 1st Annual Report of the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries, 1873, pp. 295-747.

Notice of some dredgings made near Salem by Dr. A.S. Packard, Jr. and C. Cooke in 1873. 6th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci., Salem, pp. 58-60, 1874.

Preliminary check-list of the marine invertebrates of the Atlantic coast, from Cape Cod to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Crustacea contributed by S.I. Smith. New Haven, CT, 1879, 32 pp. First supplement, 2 pp., 1881; second supplement, 2 pp., 1882

Catalogue of marine Mollusca added to the fauna of New England during the past ten years.

Second catalogue of mollusca, recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. New Haven, 1884.

Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England, and of some additions to the fauna of Vineyard Sound. American Journal of Science & Arts. Vols. 20, 22 -29. Washington, 1884.

Notice of the remarkable fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England. Nos. XLVII-LVII. New Haven, 1880-1885.

Vi

Vibert, W.
Connecticut ornithologist; AOU under E. W. Schmidt

Vickery, C. R.
Taunton; On Taunton River fisheries; Acknowledged in Storer, 1839

Viereck, Henry Lorenz 1881-1931
b, Philadelphia, PA; d, near Loudenville, OH

Mallis, Arnold. 1971. American Entomologists. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 549 p.

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Viles, Blaine S.
Report, Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, 1911; Kendall, 1914, Fisheries of Maine

Vinal, William

Wa

Wadsworth, Hon. Daniel
Of Hartford; Inroduction to Audubon's Quadrupeds

Wadsworth, Miss Mattie

Collected in Manchester, Kennebec County, 1890-1902+? Published in Entomological News, 1890-98+?

Harvey, F. L. 1902. A catalogue and bibliography of the Odonata (Dragon-flies) of Maine, with an annotated list of their collectors. University of Maine Studies, no. 4. Bibliography

Walcott, Frederic Collin 1869-1949
New York Mills (near Utica); d, Stamford, CT; Yale, 1891; hon. MA, 1917; Trinity, DSc, 1928; Businessman, U.S. Senator; Sportsman; President, Connecticut Board of Fisheries and Game, 1923-28; AOU

Walker, William Johnson 1789-1865 Nat???

Bouvé, T. T. 1880. William Johnson Walker. Boston Society of Natural History Anniversary Volume, pp. 103-105. Portrait

Walter, Herbert Eugene 1867-1945
b, Burke, VT; d, Providence, RI; Bates College, 1892; Harvard, PhD, 1906; Brown University, Professor, 1906-; Member: AAAS, American Society of Naturalists, American Society of Zoologists; Animal behavior, vertebrate comparative anatomy, ornithology, Molluscan variation; AOU

American Men of Science, vol. 3

Walker, Joseph Burbeen

Walker, Joseph Burbeen. An address upon the forests of New Hampshire. Manchester: Campbell and Hanscom, printers, 1872. LOCATION: Botany Arboretum JP: Tbac W15 a

Walker, Joseph Burbeen. Our New Hampshire forests: an address delivered at a meeting of the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture holden at Concord, on the 11th and 12th days of February, 1891. Concord, N.H.: Ira C. Evans, printer, 1891.

Wallace, Cranmore

Wallace, Cranmore. A geography of New Hampshire, with a sketch of its natural history, for schools. Boston: Carter & Hendee, 1829, 71 pp. pl., map.

Walton, Mason A.
Hermit of Gloucester, MA, woods

Dexter, R. W. 1973. The scientific period of the Cape Ann Scientific and Literary Association and its successors, 1873-1952. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 165-174.

Dexter, R. W. 1986. Two centuries of naturalists on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 122, no. 3, 246-258 [mentioned p. 253].

A Hermit's Wild Friends, or Eighteen Years in the Woods. Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 304 pp, 54 ill., 1903.

Ward, Mathus A. 1794-1864
b, Haverhill, NH, 1794. d, 1864. MIddlebury College, 1812-1814. Attended Medical Institution, Dartmouth College.  Medical School of Maine, M.D. 1923.

In Salem, Mass., 1823-1832.  Superintendent East India Marine Museum. First professor of botany and vegetable physiology, Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Barlow, William and David O. Powell, 1986. "The Late Dr. Ward of Indiana": Rafinesque's Source of the Walam Olum. Indiana Magazine of History, vol.82(2), pp.185-193 [references in footnote, p. 187.]

Boewe, C. 1987. The Walam Olum and Dr. Ward again. Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 83, pp. 344-359. 

Ward, Lester Frank 1841-
b, Joliet, IL; GeorgeWashington, AM, 1873; LLD, 1897; U.S. Geological Survey, Paleontologist, 1881-1905; Brown University, Professor of Sociology, 1906-; Botany, paleobotany, sociology

American Men of Science, vol. 3

Ware, John Eliot
Associated with glass flowers; Collected birds; Gif, Ware

Ware, John White 1795-1864

Dictionary of American biography. (NY: C. Scribner's sons, 1928-95. 20 v. + 10 Supplements). Article by H.R.V.

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 6 (1864), pp. 298-299.

Bouvé, T. T. 1880. Boston Society of Natural History Anniversary Volume, pp. 95-96.

Gifford, G. E., Jr. 1969. John Ware and the book of nature. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, vol. 43, no. 3 (Winter), pp. . Reprinted in Medicine and Science in Early America, Being the Collected Essays of George Edmund Gifford, Jr., 1930-1981. Friends of George E. Gifford, Jr., 1982, pp. 61-63.

Warfel, H. E.

Notes on some mammals of western Massachusetts. J. Mamm. 1937, v. 18, pp. 82-85.

Notes on the occurrence of Necturus maculosus (Rafinesque) in Massachusetts Copeia, 1936, no. 4, p. 237

Warren, B. Harry

Warren, B. Harry. 1891. Birds of Massachusetts. Ann. Rept. Mass. Board. Agric. 1890 (1891) 38. 34-57. Lecture delivered at the Winter Meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, at Worcester, Dec. 2, 1890

Warren, B. Harry. Birds of Massachusetts. Boston, Wright & Potter ... 1891.

Warren, John
b, England, early 1800s

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

Dall, W.H. 1888. Some American conchologists. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, v. 4, pp. 95-134 (p. 105).

Johnson, R. I. 1999. On the authorship of the first American conchological manual, John Warren’s "The Conchologist" Occasional papers on mollusks (Dept. of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University), v. 6, no. 78, pp. 81-88.

The Conchologist, Boston, 1834, 204 pp.

Warren, John Collins 1778-1856
b,d, Boston, MA

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 6 (1857), pp. 73-83. Bibliography.

Memorial History of Boston, vol. 4 (1881), pp. 519-520. Portrait.

American Journal of Science, ser. 2, vol. 22 (July 1856), pp. 151-152.

The John Collins Warren Collection. The American Museum Journal, v. 6 (1906), no. 2, pp. 64-65.
--Account of paleontological collection, including mastodons, transferred from Warren Museum at Harvard to American Museum of Natural History.

Arnold, H. P. 1883. John Collins Warren. New England Historic Genealogical Society Memorial Biographies, vol. 3, pp. 28-69.

Gifford, G. E., Jr. 1964. Dr. Warren's mastodon. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, vol. 38, no. 3 (Winter), pp. 22-27. Reprinted in Medicine and Science in Early America, Being the Collected Essays of George Edmund Gifford, Jr., 1930-1981. Friends of George E. Gifford, Jr., 1982, pp. 27-31.

Warren, E. 1860. Life of J. C. Warren, Compiled Chiefly from his Autobiography. 2 vols. Boston. [pp. 73-75 on Society for the Study of Natural Philosophy]

Warren, W. M.

Dexter, R. W. 1974. From Penikese to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole: The role of Agassiz's students. Essex Institute Historical Collection, 110: 151-161 [mentioned p. 158].

Washburn, Bradford 1910-2007
June 7, 1910 - January 10, 2007; b, Cambridge, d, Lexington, MA. Oversaw transformation of the New England Museum of Natural History into the Boston Museum of Science of which he was director, 1939-1980.

Bradford Washburn, father of modern Museum of Science, dies at 96. Boston Globe, January 11, 2007.

Roberts, D. 2009. The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn. NY: Morrow, 352 p.

Sfraga, M. 2004. Bradford Washburn: a life of exploration. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 260 p.

Waterhouse, Benjamin 1754-1846
4 Mar. 1754-2 Oct. 1846

American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.

Cash, P. 2006. Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse: a life in medicine and public service (1754-1846). Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 516 p.

Dictionary of American Biography (article by H. R. V.)

Kelly, H. A. & W. L. Burrage. 1928. Dictionary of American Medical Biography. NY: D. Appleton, 1364 pp.

Memorial History of Boston, vol. 4 (1881), p. 518. Portrait.

Beecher, H. K. and M. D. Altschule. 1977. Pp. 40-45 (part of chapter, The theory and practise of medicine) in: Medicine at Harvard: The First Three Hundred Years. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 587 pp.

Gifford, G. E., Jr. 1969. Benjamin Waterhouse. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, vol. 44, no. 2 (Nov./Dec.), pp. 14-16. Reprinted in Medicine and Science in Early America, Being the Collected Essays of George Edmund Gifford, Jr., 1930-1981. Friends of George E. Gifford, Jr., 1982, pp. 57-60.

Boston lectures, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 9, pp. 335-336.

Adams, John. Statesman and Friend: Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784-1822. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1927.

Blake, J. B. 1958. Benjamin Waterhouse, Harvard's first professor of physic. Journal of Medical Education, vol. 33 (November).

Bell, W. J., Jr. 1978. History of anatomical instruction in New England in a letter of Benjamin Waterhouse, 1808. Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 33, pp. 215-217.

Blake, John Ballard. Benjamin Waterhouse and the introduction of vaccination; a reappraisal. Yale University Department of the History of Medicine monograph series; no. 33. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957.

Cash, P. 1992. Setting the stage: Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse's reception in Boston, 1782-1788. Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 5-28.

Cash, P. and Y. Higomoto. 1994. Further information concerning Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse's appointment as Harvard's first professor of medicine. Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 419-428.

Cohen, I. B., ed. 1980. The Life and scientific and medical career of Benjamin Waterhouse: with some account of the introduction of vaccination in America. 2 v. New York: Arno Press. [Rev., Bull. Hist. Med., vol. 57, p. 303]

Courtney, Joseph William. Benjamin Waterhouse, M. D., American pioneer. Geneve, Imprimerie A. Kundig, 1926.

Hawes, L. E. 1974. Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. First Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard and Introducer of Cowpox Vaccination into America, including a Concordance of Dr. Waterhouse's Hortus Siccus by J. Worth Estes, M.D. (Boston Medical Library Studies I) Boston: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 55 pp. Bibliography and color portrait of B. W.

Lane, William Coolidge. Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse and Harvard university. Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society,IV," Jan. 1909, pp. [5]-22.

Stohrer, Hans Leonhard. Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) and the introduction of natural history at Harvard. Thesis (A.B., Honors in History and Science)- -Harvard University, 1995. LOCATION: Harvard Archives

Trent, Josiah C. 1946. The London years of Benjamin Waterhouse. Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 1, pp.25-40.

Wilson, J. Walter. The first natural history lectures at Brown University, 1786, by Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse. NY: Paul B. Hoeber, 1942.

Primary works

Papers of Benjamin Waterhouse, 1786-1836 (inclusive). LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books Dept., Harvard University

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Papers of Benjamin Waterhouse, 1797-1829 (inclusive). LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books Dept., Harvard University

Harvard University. Records relating to the Benjamin Waterhouse controversy, 1812. LOCATION: Harvard Archives

Waterhouse, Benjamin. [A blank book used as a herbarium, having the name of Dr. Waterhouse on the blank page]. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: ff 36.E.1. Loaned to the Boston Medical Library Association by the Boston Athenaeum.

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Books borrowed by ... from the Boston Medical Library. n.p. 1806-1828. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books 1.Mba.8. Signature of Benjamin Waterhouse.

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Copy of a letter from the celebrated ... to Samuel L. Mitchell, M.D., in the City of New York Cambridge, Dec. 19, 1825. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books 1.Mh.1834.W

Waterhouse, Benjamin. The Ecclectic. No. 1-7. Samuel Thomson, "Botanist," and patented practitioner of Medicine. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books 1.Mh.1825.W

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Eighteen letters to Lyman Spalding, from Cambridge, Mass. (1797-1816). Addresses to Lyman Spalding at Cornish, N.H., Hanover, N.H. and Portsmouth, N.H., mostly regarding vaccination for smallpox. Camb. Mass. 1797 -1816. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books f 1.Kup.12.

Waterhouse, Benjamin. An essay on Junius and his letters embracing a sketch of the life and character of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and memoirs of certain other distinguished individuals: with reflections historical, personal, and political, relating to the affairs of Great Britain and America from 1763 to 1785. Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1831. Preface contains a short autobiographical sketch.

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Heads of a course of lectures, intended as an introduction to natural history, now delivering in the university at Cambridge. [Providence?: Printed by Bennett Wheeler?, between 1784 and 1791]. LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): Microfiche W 2571 (43758) Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45406, no. 43758). Microfiche

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Heads of a course of lectures, intended as an introduction to natural history, now delivering in the University at Cambridge. [n.p., 1794]. LOCATION: Harvard Archives

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Heads of a course of lectures, intended as an introduction to natural history, now delivering in the university at Cambridge. [Cambridge? 1810?]. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books ff QH51.W29 c.1 Mounted on cloth. Imperfect: damaged, some text wanting.

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Heads of a course of lectures on natural history. Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1810. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books QH51.W292 c.1 Author's inscribed presentation copy to the Revd. President Messer. Unbound. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books QH51.W292 c.2 The gift of George R[ichards] Minot to Harvard University. Unbound. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books QH51.W292 c.3 Imperfect: half-title wanting. Disbound. LOCATION: Harvard Archives: HU 313.62 LOCATION: Harvard Archives: HUC 8810.258 LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): Microfiche W 4532 no. 21959. Microfiche. New Canaan, CT : Readex, [199-] (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21959) Microfiche

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Heads of a course of lectures on natural history given annually since 1788 in the University of Cambridge by B. Waterhouse, M.D. ... Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed at the university press by W. Hilliard, [1805]. LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): Microfiche W 4532 no. 50630. Microfiche. New Canaan, CT : Readex, [199-] (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 50630). Microfiche

Waterhouse, Benjamin. List of works by ... which are listed in the catalogue of the Brown University Library. n.p. 1935. LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books 1.Mh.1935.W

Waterhouse, Benjamin. The botanist. Being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge, together with a discourse on the principle of vitality. Boston, J. T. Buckingham, 1811. Originally published in the Monthly Anthology, 1804-1808.

Waterhouse, Benjamin. Oratio inauguralis, quam in Academia Harvardiana, Cantabrigiae Novanglorum, nonis Octobribus, A.D. MDCCLXXXIII, habuit Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. ... Cantabrigiae [i.e. Cambridge, Mass.]: Typis Hilliard, Metcalf, et Soc. MDCCCXXIX [1829].

Waterhouse family. Collection of Waterhouse family papers, 1785-1836 (inclusive). LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books Dept. H MS c17

Waterman, George Arthur 1872-1960
b, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1899

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

Gifford, G. E., Jr. 1974. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, May, p. 28. Portrait

Waters, C. R.
Reptiles and amphibians

Dexter, R. W. 1980. Natural history at the Essex Institute, 1848-1898. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 116, pp. 21-33 [mentioned p. 24].

Waters, Edward Stanley 1831-1902
b, Salem; d, Holyoke, MA; Civil engineer; No publicatons; Member: Holyoke Horticulture Club; AOU

Waters, Edward S. The birds of Holyoke. Their habits, importance and characteristics. Springfield, n.d. pp. 47.

Waters, Edward S. Wild flowers of western New England. Springfield, 1893, 31 pp.

Watson, Sereno 1826-1892
1 Dec. 1826-9 Mar. 1892; b, CT; Yale, 1847; Botany of California; Worked at Gray Herbarium

American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.

Deane, Walter. 1892. Sereno Watson. pp. (4). Bulletin of the Torrey botanical club, vol.xix.no.4,(April)

Goodale, G. L. 1893. Sereno Watson with a list of Sereno Watson's botanical writings by J. A. Allen. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 27, 403-416.

Goodale, G. L. 1893. Sereno Watson, with a list of Sereno Watson's botanical writings by J.A. Allen. p. [403]-416, [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 24 cm. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. XXVII."

Humphrey, J. E. 1896. Botany and botanists in New England. New England Magazine, v. 14, pp. 29-44 (p. 40).

Sereno Watson. Reno: Northern Nevada Native Plant Society, Occasional Paper no. 5, 5 pp. pp. [403]-416, 1982. Portrait

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Weatherby, Charles Alfred 1876-1949
Ferns

Weatherby, U. F. 1951. Charles Alfred Weatherby: A Man of Many Interests. Forward by Milton Hopkins. Privately printed? Distributed by the Gray Herbarium, 189 pp. Portraits

Fernald, M. L. 1949. Charles Alfred Weatherby, botanist and helper of botanists, pp. 169-179. Bibliography of Charles Alfred Weatherby, compiled by M.L. Fernald and B. G. Schubert, pp. 179-191. Rhodora, v. 51, no. 609 (Sept).

Graves, Charles Burr, Edwin Hubert Eames ... Charles Humphrey Bissell, Luman Andrews, Edgar Burton Harger ... and Charles Alfred Weatherby ... committee of the Connecticut Botanical Society. 1910. Catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of Connecticut growing without cultivation.. 23 cm. (Connecticut. Geological and Natural History Survey. Bulletin no. 14; (State of Connecticut.Public document no. 47). 569 pp.

Papers of Charles Alfred Weatherby, 1893-1948 (bulk). ca. 6 linear ft.. Arranged in two series: Biographical and Botanical Papers. Weatherby (Harvard, A.B. 1897; A.M. 1898) was interested in botany and volunteered at Gray Herbarium during summers. In 1931 he became Assistant Curator; Senior Curator in 1937; and Research Associate upon his retirement in 1940. Weatherby is best known as a fern specialist, but also researched in other areas, such as botanical nomenclature. Cite as: Charles Alfred Weatherby Papers. Archives, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Herbaria.

Weatherby, Una Foster

Tryon, A. F. 1958. Una Foster Weatherby. American Fern Journal, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 129-135.

Webb, Benjamin, Jr.
Microscopy

Dexter, R. W. 1980. Natural history at the Essex Institute, 1848-1898. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 116, pp. 21-33 [mentioned p. 29].

Webb, T. W.
Member, Providence Franklin Society; Published in American Journal of Science; Meisel, 1821

Webster, John White 1793-1850

Dictionary of American biography. (NY: C. Scribner's sons, 1928-95. 20 v. + 10 Supplements). Article by E.L.P.

Kelly, H. A. & W. L. Burrage. 1928. Dictionary of American Medical Biography. NY: D. Appleton, 1364 pp.

Webster, May Rogers (Mrs. Laurence J. Webster) -1938
b, Scituate; d, Boston, MA; Mainly lived in Holderness, NH, after 1901; Founded New Hampshire Nature Camp of (at?) Lost River, 1932; Vice-President, New England Wildflower Preservation Society; AOU

Weed, Clarence Moores 1864-1947
b, Toledo, OH; Ohio State University, ScD, 1901; Professor of Zoology and Entomology, New Hampshire College, 1891-1904; Instructor, Nature Study, State Normal School, Lowell, 1904-21; Principal, President, Massachusetts State Teachers College, Lowell, 1921-1935; Entomologist, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station; Insect life history, relations of flowers and insects, Phalangiidae of America, nature study in schools.

American Men of Science, vol. 3

Who Was Who in America, v. 2

National cyclopaedia of American biography. (NY: J.T. White, 1898-1984), vol. 41, pp. 534-535.

School and Society (?) , vol. 66 (July 26, 1947), p. 60

Ohio Authors and their Books, ed. by W. Coyle. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1962

Bird life stories, compiled from the writings of Audubon, Bendire, Nuttall, and Wilson. Compiled by Clarence Moores Weed. xx vols. Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1904- col. plates.

Birds in their relation to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada. With Ned Dearborn. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1903, viii + 380 pp., front., illus., plates. Also later ed.: 2nd (1916), 3rd (1924), 4th (1935).

Butterflies worth knowing. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page,1917, xiii + 286 pp., col. front., illus., plates (part. col.) (Little Nature Library, Worth Knowing Series); Also: 1928. Also published as Butterflies, 1926.

Insect ways. NY: D. Appleton, 1930, vii + 343 pp., illus. juv.

The insect world; a reading book of entomology. Comp. and ed. by Clarence Moores Weed. NY: D. Appleton, 1899, xvi + 210 pp., front., illus., plates. juv.

Life histories of American insects. NY: Macmillan, 1897, xii + 272 pp., front., illus.

Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies,moths, grasshoppers and flies. NY: Doubleday, Page, 1901, x + 164 pp., front., illus.

New Hampshire wild flowers. Durham, New Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station, 1903. 47 p. illus. Nature Study leaflet, no. 4

Our trees, how to know them; photographs from nature by Arthur I. Emerson, with a guide to their recognition at any season of the year and notes on their characteristics, distribution, and culture. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1908, viii + 295 pp., plates. Also: 5th ed., with an ill. introduction, 1918, xxi + 295 pp.

A partial bibliography of the economic relations of North American birds. New Hampshire college agricultural experiment station. Technical bulletin; no. 5. Durham: New Hampshire college of agriculture and the mechanic arts, 1902.

Seed travellers; studies of the methods of dispersal of various common seeds. Boston: Ginn, 1898, iv + 53 pp., front., illus.

Seeing nature first. Ill. by W.I. Beecraft. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1913, 306 pp., col. front., illus. plates.

Stories of insect life. Boston: Ginn, 1897, iv + 54 pp., illus.

The study of evergreens in the public schools. Boston: Wright & Potter, state printers, 1908, 30 pp., illus.

The study of trees in our primary schools. Boston: Wright & Potter, state printers, 1907, 48 pp., illus., diagrs.

Ten New England blossoms and their insect visitors. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895, xi + 142 pp., front., illus., plates, port.

Wild flower families; the haunts, characters, and family relationships of the herbaceous wild flowers, with suggestions for their identification. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1908, 244 pp., col. front., illus.

Weeks, Andrew Gray 1861-
b, Boston, MA; Harvard, AB, 1883; Hon. associate, Entomology, Harvard museum, 1903-; Diurnal Lepidoptera; AMSIII

[Butterfly collection given to MCZ] Entomological News, vol. 3, p.48.

Weinland, Dr. Christoph David Friedrich 1829-1914
Of Cambridge, 1860s

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

Falco (Halle), vol. 11 (1915), pp. 33-36.

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Wellman, Rev. Gordon Boit -1942
d, Wellesley, MA; Of Wellesley, 1919-1942; Associate Professor, Biblical History; AOU

Welsh, Jane K. or Welch?
McAllister, Amos Eaton, pp. 258-259

A Botanical Catechism. Northampton, 1819, 34 pp. for young students

Wentworth, Louis A.
Member, Houghton Horticultural Society; Botany; Wrote nature articles about Lynn, MA, woods

Dexter, Ralph W. 1962 The Lynn Natural History Society (1842-1855). Essex Institute Historical Collections 98: 175-183.

Wentworth, Thomas H.
Report, Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game of the State of Maine, 1893; Kendall, 1914, Fishes of Maine

Weston, Alfred Crowell 1892-1933
b, West Roxbury; d, Princeton, MA; Home: Needham; Oology; Collection in Children's Museum, Boston; AOU

Wetherbee, D. K.

The birds and mammals of Worcester county, Massachusetts. Century Press, Worcester, 1945, 192pp.

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Putnam, F. W. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 31 (1896), pp. 363-367.

Jackson, R. L. 1948. The Physicians of Essex County. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 152 pp. [p. 123]

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Upham, W. P. 1895. Memoir of Henry Wheatland, M.D.. Cambridge, J. Wilson; Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2 ser., vol. 9 (whole ser. 29) (January, 1895), pp. 276-300.

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Essex Institute. Henry Wheatland; born January 11, 1812, died February 27, 1893; founder of the Essex institute, 1847-1848; its secretary and treasurer, 1848-1868; its president, 1868-1893. [A memorial. Salem, 1893].

Wheatland, Richard Henry
Ichthyology

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Wheeler, William Morton 1865-1937
19 Mar. 1865-19 Apr. 1937; b, Milwaukee; Clark University, PhD, 1892; Harvard, Professor of Economic Entomology, 1908-; AMSIII

American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.

Evans, M. A. and H. E. Evans. 1970. William Morton Wheeler, Biologist. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 363 pp. Portraits and bibliography.

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Primary Works

Ants: their structure, development, and behavior. NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 663 pp.

Social life among the insects. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1923, 375 pp.

Les sociétés d'insectes: leur origine, leur évolution. Paris: Gaston Doin, 1926, 468 pp.

The natural history of ants. NY: A. Knopf, 1926, 280 pp., 4 plates (From an unpublished MS of Réaumur)

Emergent evolution and the social. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927, 57 pp. (Psyche Miniatures, General Series, no. 11).

Foibles of insects and men. NY: A. Knopf, 1928, 217 pp.

The social insects: their origin and evolution. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1928, 378 pp.

Emergent evolution and the development of societies. NY: W.W. Norton, 1928, 80 pp.

Demons of the dust.: a study in insect behavior. NY: W.W. Norton, 1930, 378 pp.

Colony-founding among ants; with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1933, 179 pp.

The Lamarck manuscripts at Harvard. Ed. by William Morton Wheeler and Thomas Barbour. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1933, 202 pp. 4 plates.

Mosaics and other anomalies among ants. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1937, 95 pp.

Essays in philosophical biology. Ed. by G. H. Parker. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1937, 261 pp. 2 plates.

Wherry, Edgar Theodore 1885-

Wherry, Edgar Theodore. (1885-) 1923?, 1930? A selected list of the ferns and flowering plants of Mount Desert Island and vicinity. 14 leaves

Wherry, Edgar Theodore. (1885-) 1928. Wild flowers of Mount Desert Island, Maine. Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Press, iv, 164 pp. ill. (Published by the Garden Club of Mount Desert) 1928 Not otherwise NE

Whipple, Col.
Of Dartmouth (now Jefferson), NH; Trip up Mt. Washington with Cutler

Pease, A. S. 1964. "History of Botanical Collecting in this Area" (pp. 33-40; with bibliography, pp. 41-50) in A Flora of Northern New Hampshire. Cambridge: New England Botanical Club.

Whitaker, James Davis 1868-1952
b, Lowell; d, Wellesley, MA; Cotton business; No publications, collected; AOU

White, Daniel A.
President, Essex Institute; Dexter, 1980, p. 25

Dexter, R. W. 1980. Natural history at the Essex Institute, 1848-1898. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 116, pp. 21-33 [mentioned p. 25].

White, Francis Beach 1872-1948
Harvard, AM, 1895; Taught at St. Paul's School, Concord, NH; Founded the Wilson Ornithological Club; Member, AAAS, Massachusetts Audubon Society, New Hampshire Audubon Society (Vice-President), Northeastern Bird-Banding Society (President), Nuttall; AOU

White, Francis Beach, 1872-1948. Check-list of the birds of New Hampshire. Concord, N.H. : White, 1922. 120 p. (chiefly blank) ; 18 cm. "Species not in Dr. [Glover M.] Allen's List [of the birds of New Hampshire] of 1903 are indicated by the authority for their inclusion. Names and indented numbers follow the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list, third edition." Lists 292 species of New Hampshire birds with blank pages for notes.

Preliminary List of the Birds of Concord, New Hampshire, with Notes. Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1924, 153 lvs.

Local Notes on the Birds of Concord, New Hampshire. Concord, NH: Rumford Press, [1937], 126 pp. Notice: Auk, 1938, p. 296.

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White, Frances Black. Check-list of the birds of New Hampshire. Concord, NH, Rumford Press, 1935, [68] pp.

White, George
Member, Linnaean Society, Amherst College, 1822; Meisel

White, Dr. James Clarke 1833-1916
b, Belfast, ME; d, Boston, MA; Harvard; Tremont Medical School, 1856; Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, 1871-1902; Curator, Harvard Natural HistorySociety (as student, associated with T. W. Harris); Curator of Comparative Anatomy, Boston Society of Natural History, 1858-68; AOU

White, William Lawrence 1908-1952

Barghoorn, E. S., R. C. Rollins and W. H. Weston. 1953. [Obituary]. Harvard University Gazette, vol. 48, no. 25 (March 14), pp. 175-176.

Whiting, Charles Goodrich 1842-

Whitman, Charles Otis 1842-1910
14 Dec. 1842-6 Dec. 1910

Director, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.

American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.

Whitman, G. P.
Cape Cod

Dexter, R. W. 1986. Two centuries of naturalists on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 122, no. 3, 246-258 [mentioned p. 248].

Whittemore, Harry Weston 1859-

A blueberry pasture, and other outdoor sketches made in New Hampshire. Tufts College, MA: The Tufts College Press, 1910, 87 p. front., plates.

An old homestead and thereabout: An old homestead : A grove of Rock maples : Bluebirds and Woodpeckers : A Blueberry pasture : Cardinal flower brook : An old barn and its swallows : school district number eight. Malden, MA: H.W. Wittemore & Co., 1899, 60 p.

Whitten, Orin B.
Report, Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries, 1893-94; Kendall, 1914, Fishes of Maine

Whittle, Charles Livy
Editor, Bulletin of the Northeastern Bird-Banding Association, and Bird-Banding; AOU, p. 601 (mentioned in Helen Granger Whittle obituary)

Whittle, Helen Granger 1876-1951
b, Greenland; d, Hillsboro, NH; St. Johnsbury Academy, 1896Horticultural course at Massachusetts State College of Agriculture, then for 17 years grounds/garden superintendent in Peterborough, NH; Assisted husband, Charles Livy Whittle, Editor, Bulletin of the Northeastern Bird-Banding Association, and Bird-Banding; AOU