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b,d, Boston, MA
Sept 15, 1815-April 13, 1885
m, Hannah Lowell Jackson, nine children
Harvard College, AB 1836
Harvard Medical School MD 1839
Studied in Paris 2 years
Stephens-Catherwood expedition to Yucatan, ornithologist, 1841-42
Medical practice, 1843-85
Massachusetts General Hospital, visiting surgeon, 1853-84
Boston Children's Hospital, president
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AOU
Auk, vol. 3 (January), p. 144, 1886
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Carnegie, III, G. M.
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Carter, Charles Moreland 1852-1922
b, Cambridge, MA; d, St. Joseph, MO; West west in 1875; Sports,man; wrote: Shooting in the Early Days (NE??); AOU
Carter, Mrs. Isabel Paddock 1871-1907
b, d, St. Johnsbury, VT; Died fortnight after marriage to Carter; Educ: Smith; Taught music; Curator, St. Johnsbury Museum; Member, Vermont Bird Club, Vermont Botanical Society; Scored bird songs contributed to Chapman's Warblers of North America; AOU
Carter, Robert 1819-1879
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Cash, Harry Alvin 1870-1928
b, Pawtucket; d, Providence, RI; Furrier and taxidermist; AOU
Cassino, Samuel Edson1856-1937
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Chadbourne, Arthur Patterson 1862-1936
b, Boston, MA; d, Washington, DC; Harvard College, 1885; Harvard Medical School, 1889; Member, Nuttall Club; Auk papers, 1886-1905; AOU
Chadbourne, Paul Ansel 1823-1883
b, October 21, 1823, Berwick, ME; d, February 23, 1883. Williams, 1848; Professor, President, Williams College; Botany; Durfee, C. 1860. History of Williams College
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His herbarium was sold to Bates College and then may have gone to Harvard's Gray Herbarium with the included Chester Dewey collection. Story (p.70-71) in:
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Chadwick, John
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Chamberlain, Chauncy Ward 1851-1930
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Chamberlain, Edward Blanchard 1878-1925
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American Fern Journal, vol. 17, pp. 141-142, 1927; vol. 18, p. 67, 1928.
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Chamberlain, Montague 1844-1924
b, St. John, NB; d, Boston, MA; Businessman, then assistant secretary of the Harvard Corporation & secretary of the Lawrence Scientific School; Interested in birds, 1870-1900, and Indians; Wrote on Canadian birds (especially NB), and revised edition of Nuttall; Published in Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick; AOU
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Chapin, Angie Clara 1855-1937
b, Adrian; d, Ann Arbor, MI; University of Michigan, A.B. 1875; M.A. 1895; 40 years in Classics at Wellesley College
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Chapman, Reuben A.
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Charleton, Leroy T.
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Chase, Sidney 1847-1932
b, d, Nantucket; Businessman; AOU
Chesley, Charles Henry
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Cheney, Robert Francis 1875-1949
b, Lee; d, Southborough; M.A., Williams; Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, 1901; Rector, Southborough; Connected with St. Mark's and Fay School; A director, Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1920-1948; AOU
Chester, Webster 1876-
b, Noank, CT; A.B. (1900), ScD (1935) Colgate; A.M., Harvard, 1908; Instructor, science & math, Colby Academy, 1900-1902; Prof Biology, Colby College, 1903-; Lecturer, Bangor Theological Seminary, 1914-; Instructer, MBL, 1908; Anatomy and life history of Tottenia gemma
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Chickering, John White, Jr. 1831-1913
b, Bolton, MA; Washington, DC; A.B. (1852), A.M. (1855), Bowdoin; President, Portland Society of Natural History, 1851; Botany Meisel, 1843
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Childs, H. H.
Curator, Lyceum of Natural History of the Berkshire Medical Institute, Pittsfield; Meisel, 1823
Chittenden, Alfred Knight
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Chivers, Arthur Houston 1880-
b, Amesbury, MA; A.M. Harvard, 1904; Instructor, Dartmouth; Ascomycetes
American Men of Science, ed. 2 (1910).
Chrysler, Mintin Asbury 1871-
b, Berlin, Ont.; PhD, University of Chicago, 1904; Professor, University of Maine, 1907-; Botany and plant anatomy
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Churchill, Joseph Richmond 1845-
b, Dorchester, MA; Judge; Phenogamic botany; Botany in Coos County, 1889-1895; Pease, 1895
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Librarian during early years of Marine Biological Laboratory.
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Clapp, William Frederick 1880-1951
d, Boston, MA; Molluscs, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1911-23; Collection of New England shells in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Published in Nautilus, 1911-30
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.
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Dexter, R. W. 1976. Dr. Victor Sterki and some of his malacological correspondence. Sterkiana, 63/64: 65-76.
Clark, Dr.
Plants included in Tracy, 1858
Clark, Anna M.
The trees of Vermont. Burlington, VT: Free Press Association, 1899, 86 pp. (Contributions to the botany of Vermont V)
The trees of Vermont. Burlington: Botanical Department of the University of Vermont, pp. [33]-86, [47] p. ill. (Contributions to the botany of Vermont 5) Reprint of the 1899 ed. published by Free Press Assoc., Burlington, as Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin no. 73, plus interleaved pages containing notes by L.R. Jones, 1899??.
Clark, Austin Hobart 1880-1954
b, Wellesley, MA; d, Washington, DC; AB, Harvard, 1903; Smithsonian Institution, 1908-; Birds, Echinoderms, Lepidoptera
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.
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Some unusual and interesting butterflies from eastern Massachusetts. Psyche. 1925. 32: 293-298.
Three interesting butterflies from eastern Massachusetts. United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum; v.45.
Clark, B. Preston1860-1939
Member, Cambridge Entomological Club, ~1913; Hummingbird moths; Grandson of Charles Sumner
Arbeiten über morphologische und taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem, v. 6, p. 188.
Mann, W.M. Ant Hill Odyssey, p. 115
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Clark, C.
President, Phi Beta Theta, Amherst College, 1834; Meisel, 1822
Clark, Henry James 1826-1873
22 June 1826-1 July 1873
b, Easton; d, Amherst, MA
m, Mary Young Holbrook, 8 children
University of the City of New York, AB 1848
Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, SB 1854
Teacher, White Plains, NY, 1848-50
Assistant to Louis Agassiz. 1854-
Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard (Adjunct professor of natural history, assistant professor of zoology, 1860-65
Microscopy, anatomy, histology, morphology; animals, some plants
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American Journal of Science 3 ser., vol. 6, p. 160, 1873.
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Clark, Howard Lee 1857-1926
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Clark, Hubert Lyman 1870-1947
b, Amherst; d, Cambridge, MA; Amherst, 1892; PhD, Johns Hopkins, 1897; Echinoderms, marine invertebrates, MCZ, 1905-; AOU
American Men of Science, ed. 2 (1910).
Chace, F. A. 1948. Hubert Lyman Clark: teacher and friend, January 9, 1870-July 31, 1947. Allan Hancock Pacific Exped. 8: ii-iv. Portrait
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Clark, John Nathaniel 1831-1903
b,d, Saybrook, CT; Teacher, probate judge, etc.; AOU
Clark, William Smith 1826-86
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Clarke, Daniel Allen
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b, Brooklyn, NY; Harvard, M.S., 1923; University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1953 ; Curator, Molluscs, MCZ, 1926-1966; Hon curator, 1966- .
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Trees of Coburn Park. Skowhegan, Me.: [The Independent Reporter], 1928. 73 pp.
Smith, Grace Coburn. Louise Helen Coburn as seen through her poems. Skowhegan, Me. [1928?]. 19 p. ports.
Codman, James McMaster 1862-1925
Harvard, 1894; Harvard Law School?; AOU
Coe, Wesley Roswell 1869-
b, Middlefield, CT; PhD, Yale, 1895; Professor of Biology, Yale; Comparative anatomy and embryology; American Men of Science, ed. 1 (1906)II
American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921).
Coe, William Wellington 1842-1885
b, Madison; d, Portland, CT; Banker; Published in Forest and Stream, Ornithologist and Oologist; AOU
Coffin, Dr. Edward L.
Founder, Lynn Natural History Society
Dexter, R. W. 1962 The Lynn Natural History Society (1842-1855). Essex Institute Historical Collections 98: 175-183.
Cogswell, Joseph Green 1786-1871
Ticknor, A. E., ed. 1874. Memorial of Joseph Green Cogswell. Boston.
Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography. NY: D. Appleton and company, 1887-89, 6 v. [v. 1, p. 679]. Online version in Virtual American Biographies, Virtualology.com.
Cogswell, William
Curator, Northern Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hanover, NH, 1841; Meisel 1841
Colburn, William Wallace -1899 at 60
b, New Boston, NH; d. Springfield, MA; Dartmouth, 1861; Teacher & principal; AOU
The Birds of the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts. Springfield, MA, 1891. 24 pp. [with R. O. Morris] Reprinted from Auk, 1891, p. 384????
Colburn, William W. and Robert O. Morris [1846-1925] The birds of the Connecticut valley in Massachusetts. Springfield, MA: Clark W. Bryan, printer, 1891. 24 pp.
Our friends the birds.[Springfield, 1895]. pp. [9]. Park Commissioner's report. Springfield, Mass. 1894.
Colburn, William Wallace. (and Robert O. Morris??). Our local ornithology. A complete list of birds found in the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts. Homestead. June 39, July 7, 14, 1888.
Cole, Leon Jacob 1877-1948
b. Allegany, NY, 1 June 1877; d. Madison, Wisc., 17 February 1948
Largely known as geneticist at the University of Wisconsin (1910-1948). Teaching fellow, Harvard (1903-1905), Division of Animal Breeding and Pathology at the Rhode Island Experiment Station (1906), instructor in zoology, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale (1907-1910). Several summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Suggested idea of bird banding (1901). Led New Haven Bird Club committee to organize a banding program, winter of 1907/08 and the following year. Initiated American Bird Banding Association.
Cole, L. J. 1922. Early history of bird banding in America. Wilson Bulletin, v. 34, pp. 108-114.
Chapman, A. B. 1990. Cole, Leon Jacob. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Supplement II, ed. by F. L. Holmes. NY: Scribner. (v. 1 of Suppl. II, v. 17 of whole series.)
Cole, Samuel W. 1796-1851 nat???
Maine Board of Agriculture, 35th Annual Report for 1892. 1893. appx. pp. 30-31. (Agricultural Bibliography of Maine)
Cole, Thomas 1779-1852
Infusoria
Dexter, R. W. 1980. Natural history at the Essex Institute, 1848-1898. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 116, pp. 21-33 [mentioned p. 22].
Memorial History of Boston, vol. 4, p. 520, 1881.
Cole, Thomas. 1853. List of infusorial objects found chiefly in the neighborhood of Salem, Mass, etc. 1853. Proc. Essex Institute. v. 1, pp. 33-48.
Collier, Priscilla L.
Botany of Cohasset. Pp. 541-552 in A Narrative History of the Town of Cohasset, Massachusetts, by? E. Victor Bigelow. Boston, MA: Press of S. Usher, 1898, xviii, 561 pp. Published under the auspices of the Committee on Town History. ; Pp. 541-552 in A Narrative History of the Town of Cohasset, Massachusetts, by E. Victor Bigelow. Cohasset: Committee on Town History, 2 v. 1956.; Pp. 541-552 in A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts, by E. Victor Bigelow. West Hanover, MA: Halliday Lithograph Corp. 1970.
Collins, Frank Shipley 1848-
b. Boston; Tufts, AM, 1910; Seaweeds, North American algae; Fellow, American Academy; American Men of Science, ed. 1 (1906)II
American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921).
Dictionary of American biography. (NY: C. Scribner's sons, 1928-95. 20 v. + 10 Supplements).
Setchell, W. 1925. Albert.Frank Shipley Collins, 1848-1920. American journal of botany, XII (January), pp. 54-62.
Setchell, W. A. 1933. Frank Shipley Collins, 1848-1920. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 68, no. 13, pp. 615-618.
The marine algae of Casco Bay. Proceedings of the Portland Society of Natural History, v. 2 (1911), pt. 9, 257-282 p.
Collins, George L.
President, Providence Franklin Society, 1852-54; Meisel, 1821
Collins, James Franklin 1863-1940
Fernald, M. L. 1942. Incidents of field work with J. Franklin Collins. Rhodora, vol. 44, no. 520 (April), pp. 98-147. pls. Bibliography.
Reid, A. M. M. 1987. Pioneer New England bryologists : a prosopography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University (Occasional papers of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, no. 19), 71 pp. [pp. 9-11]
Snell, W. H. 1942. J. Franklin Collins. Rhodora, vol. 44, no. 520 (April), pp. 93-97. Portrait.
Snell, W. H. and A. M. Waterman. 1941. James Franklin Collins. Phytopathology, vol. 31, pp. 475-477. Portrait.
Some interesting Rhode Island Bogs.
Fern genera [of the flora of Rhode Island.].
Preliminary lists of New England plants. XIX.
Papers of James Franklin Collins, 1884-1935 (inclusive). Botany Gray Herbarium, Harvard University:
Collins, Joseph Williams 1839-1904
b, Isleboro, ME; Self-educated; Chairman, Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission, 1899- .
Linton, E. 1915. Reminiscences of the Woods Hole Laboratory of the Bureau of Fisheries, 1882-89. Science, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 1064, pp. 737-753.[p. 749-750]
Twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans. Boston: The Biographical Soceity, 1904, 10 v. [v. 2]
Who Was Who in America, vol. 1, p. 245.
Collins, W. O.
President, Phi Beta Theta, Amherst College, 1833; Meisel, 1822
Coman, Dale Rex 1906-
The endless adventure. Chicago: H. Regnery Co. 1972, 185 pp. Reprinted: Camden, ME: Down East, 1972, 205 pp.
Mammals, reptiles and amphibians of Mount Desert Island, Maine. 3rd ed. Bar Harbor, ME: Island Wide Printing, 1987, 47 pp. Ill. by author and W.W. Frazier.
The native mammals, reptiles and amphibians of Mount Desert Island, Me. Bar Harbor, ME: Parkman Press, 1981, 30 pp.
The native mammals, reptiles and amphibians of Mount Desert Island, Maine. S.l., 1972, 32 pp.
Pleasant River. NY: W.W. Norton 1966 , 169 pp. Reprinted: Camden, ME: Down East Magazine, 1976.
About the Pleasant River valley, Washington County, ME
Comey, Arthur Coleman, 1904-1950??
Schriftgiesser, Karl. Skiing up Mt. Katahdin's ice and snow to its peak, Arthur Comey reaches Maine's highest summit by stiff alpine climbing - the first time the wintry slopes have thus been conquered. Boston evening transcript, March 27, 1926, p. 3,
A partial list of the summer birds of Holderness, New Hampshire. Wilson Bulletin, vol. 16 (1905), nos. 5-9.
Summer birds of New Hampshire, a partial list of the summer birds of Holderness, New Hampshire. [1904].
Papers of Arthur Coleman Comey, 1904-1950 (inclusive). Loeb Design Library, Harvard University
Comstock, John L.
Founding member, Connecticut Society of Natural History (1845), Secretary, 1857-58; Meisel, 1835
Conant, Dr. Thomas
2nd president, Cape Ann Scientific and Literary Association
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.
Cook, Caleb 1836-1880
b,d, Salem, MA
Zool. Anz. 3 Jahrg. p. 528. 1880.
Dexter, R. W. 1970. Peabody Academy's Caleb Cook, the devoted. Biologist, vol. 52, pp. 112-119. Bibliography
Dexter, R. W. 1979. More on Caleb Cook's expedition to Zanzibar, 1860-1865. Biologist 61(1): 11-15.
Dexter, R. W. 1980. Natural history at the Essex Institute, 1848-1898. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 116, pp. 21-33 [mentioned p. 24].
Cook, Harold Oatman
The forests of Worcester County: the results of a forest survey of the fifty-nine towns in the county and a study of their lumber industry. Boston: Wright & Potter, state printers, 1917.
Cook, L. G.
Starlings of Amherst, Massachusetts. Bird Lore, vol. 12 (1910), p. 78.
Cook, Mabel Priscilla
A list of plants seen on the island of Monhegan, Maine, June 20-25, Rhodora, vol. 3 pp. 187-190. 1901.
Cooke, Phineas
Curator, Northern Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hanover, 1841; Meisel, 1841
Cooley, Dennis 1787-1860
Beal, W. J. 1901. Report of the Michigan Academy of Science for 1900, vol. 2, p. 108. Portrait.
Reid, A. M. M. 1987. Pioneer New England bryologists : a prosopography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University (Occasional papers of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, no. 19), 71 pp. [pp. 11-12]
Floral calendar for the years 1815, 16, 17, 18, and 19; kept at Deerfield, Mass. ... one hundred miles from the sea coast. American Journal of Science, vol. 2 (1820), no. 1, p. 254.
Cooley, George Ralph 1896-1986
Howard, R. A. 1987. George Ralph Cooley (1896-1986). Taxon, v. 36, no. 3, pp. 696-698.
Howard, R. A. 1987. Some botanical reminiscence of George Ralph Cooley, 1896-1986. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, v. 68, no. 4, pp. 471-478.
Howard, Richard Alden. George R. Cooley's plant collecting trips. MS. Arnold Arboretum Library, Harvard University.
Coolidge, Harold Jefferson 1904-1985
Assistant curator of mammals, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 1929-1946; Associate in mammalogy at Harvard from 1946-70.
Executive director, Pacific Science Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1946-70.
Honorary president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), 1972- .
Mainly a primatologist
Barbour, Thomas. 1943. Naturalist at large. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 314 p. [p. 312].
Cevasco, G. A. 1997. Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists, pp. 166-168.
A tribute to Harold Jefferson Coolidge. The Environmentalist, v. 5, no. 2, (June, 1985), pp. 83-84
Papers of Harold Jefferson Coolidge, 1904-1985 (inclusive)
Finding aid available in repository
73.8 cubic feet in 223 containers
Location: Harvard Archives
Cooper, Gerald P.?
A biological survey of 31 lakes & ponds of the upper Saco River & Sebago Lake drainage systems in Maine. A report. [Augusta] Maine: Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Game, 1939, 147 p. illus. plates, tables, diagrs (part fold). (Maine. Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Game. Fish survey report no. 2)
A biological survey of the waters of York County, and the southern part of Cumberland County, Maine. [Augusta] Maine, 1939, 58 p. illus. fold. chart, tables 2. (Maine. Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Game. Fish survey report no. 1)
Cooper, Joseph.
Letter ... on the Hession Fly and the early white wheat. Mass. Soc. Promoting Agri. Papers, 1799, pp. 26-28.
Copeland, Manton 1881-
b. Brunswick, ME; PhD Harvard 08; Biology, Bowdoin, 1908-; Ecology of birds and mammals; article on mammals with Alton Pope, 1917; Norton, Mammals of Portland
Published in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921).
Dexter, R. W. 1986. Two centuries of naturalists on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 122, no. 3, 246-258 [mentioned p. 255].
Notes on Maine mammals. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 30 (1917), pp. 159-160.
Notes on the mammals of Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 25:157-162.
The saga of Cape Ann, by Melvin T. Copeland & Elliott C. Rogers. Freeport, Me., Bond Wheelwright Co., 1960.
Cornelius, Elias 1794-1832
National cyclopaedia of American biography. (NY: J.T. White, 1898-1984), vol. 5, p. 431.
Correa de Serra, Joseph Francisco 1750-1823
b, Serpa; d, Caldas, Portugal; Member of the Friday Evening Club in Boston; [Putnam, J.J. Memoir of Dr. James Jackson]
Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography. NY: D. Appleton and company, 1887-89, 6 v. [v. 1, p. 746]. Online version in Virtual American Biographies, Virtualology.com.
Davis, R. B. 1993. The Abbé Correa in America, 1812-1820. New preface by Gordon S. Wood, new afterward by L. Bourdon. Providence, RI: Gavea-Brown., 375 pp. Reprint of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 45, no. 2, 1955.
Cory, Charles Barney 1857-1921
Lawrence Scientific School; 31 Jan. 1857-29 July 1921; b. Boston; d. Chicago?; AOU
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.
Chapman, F. M. 1933. [anecdotes], pp. 53-55 in Autobiography of a Bird-Lover. NY: D. Appleton-Century
A naturalist in the Magdalen Islands. Ill. by the author. Boston, 1878, iv + 93 pp., front., plate, figs.
How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America. Ill. by Edward Knobel. Boston: Little, Brown, 1897, 95 pp., front, figs.
The birds of eastern North America, Part I, Water birds, Part II, Land birds Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1899, ix + 142 pp., front, figs.; ix + pp.131-387, front., figs. Also: 1900.
Catalogue of the birds of the Americas and adjacent islands. With Charles E. Hellmayr and Boardman Conover. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History (Zoological Series, vol. XIII), 1918-1949. In 15 installments.
Coues, Elliott 1842-1899
b, Portsmouth, NH; d, Baltimore, MD; Columbia, M.D., 1863, Ph.D., 1869
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.
Brodhead, M. J. 1997. Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists, pp. 173-175.
Who Was Who in America
A list of the birds of New England. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1868. (reprinted from: Catalogue of the birds of North America contained in the museum of the Essex Institute; with which is incorporated a list of the birds of New
Catalogue of the birds of North America contained in the Museum of the Essex Institute; with which is incorporated A List of the Birds of New England. With brief Critical and Field Notes. [Salem?, Mass., 1868].
Counce, B. W.
Kendall, William Converse. 1914. The fishes of Maine. Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, art 1, 198 pp.
Google Books version.
Report of Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries of State of Maine, 1891
Courtis, Ambrose S. 1798-1836
Bouvé, T. T. 1880. Boston Society of Natural History Anniversary Memoir, p. 26-27.
Couthouy, Joseph Pitty 1808-1864
Boston, MA; d, Louisiana (in battle); Member, Boston Society of Natural History; Gifford-Storer
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.
Bouvé, T. T. 1880. Boston Society of Natural History Anniversary Memoir, pp. 134-135.
Bartlett, H. H. 1940. Reports of Wilkes Expedition. Gould's "Molluscs and Shells" vol. XII. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 82, no. 5, pp. 650-655.
Geiser, S.W. 1957. Joseph Pitty Couthouy (1808-64) in Texas. Field & Laboratory, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 99-104. [chronology of his life, p. 104]
Johnson, R. I. 1946. Joseph Pitty Couthouy - a bibliography and catalogue of his species. Occasional Papers on Molluscs, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 33-40. Bibliography.
Couthouy, Joseph Pitty. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, with remarks on several polypi, &c. found in Massachusetts Bay. Charlestown [Mass.]: Aurora Press, 1838.
Cram, William Everett 1871-
Little beasts of field & wood. Boston, Small, Maynard and Company, 1899, 261 p.
2d ed., 1901.
More little beasts of field and wood. Boston : Small, Maynard, 1912, 303 p.
The winter birds of New England. New England Magazine, vol. 13 (1896), pp. 547-554.
Crane, J.
Mammals of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 12 (1931), pp. 267-273.
Crosby, Dixi
Curator, Northern Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hanover, NH, 1841; Meisel, 1841
Cross, Albert Ashley 1877-1940
b,d, Huntington, MA; Pharmacy; Reported to Forbush; AOU
Crotch, G. R.
Cruickshank, A. D.
Summer birds of Lincoln County, Maine. NY: National Audubon Society, 1950, 51 pp.
Cudworth, Warren Handell 1877-1927
b, Freetown, MA; d. Norwood, MA; Proof reader, Classicist; Book collector; No publications
Palmer, T. S. et al. 1954. Biographies of Members of the American Ornithologists' Union, reprinted from 'The Auk', 1884-1954. Ed. by P. H. Oehser. Washington, DC: Lord Baltimore Press, 630 pp. [p. 154].
Cummings, Prof Clara Eaton 1855-1906
b, Plymouth, NY; Botany, Wellesley, 1879-1906; Lichens
American Men of Science, ed. 1 (1906).
[Obituary]. The Bryologist, vol. 10, pp. 33-34, 1907.
Fink, B. 1907. A memoir of Clara E. Cummings. The Bryologist, vol. 10, pp. 37-41. Portrait.
Reid, A. M. M. 1987. Pioneer New England bryologists : a prosopography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University (Occasional papers of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, no. 19), 71 pp. [pp. 12-13]
Riddle, L. W. 1912. An enumeration of lichens collected by Clara Eaton Cummings in Jamaica-I. Mycologia, v.4:3, p.125-140.
Cummings, Emma Gertrude 1856-1940
b, Cambridge; d, Westfield, MA; also lived in Brookline; Educ: Boston Art School; Baby Pathfinder to the Birds; Brookline Trees, a map of the important trees of Brookline; Botany; AOU; obit. Auk, v. 60, pp. 316-317, 1943
Brookline's trees; a history of the Committee for planting trees of Brookline, Massachusetts and a record of some of its trees. Brookline, MA: The Brookline historical society and the Committee for planting trees, 1938. 97 pp. pl. Includes "The hurricane of September 21, 1938", by Daniel G. Lacey, pp. 85-88.
Trees in Brookline, Massachusetts, by F. C. Prince and E. G. C. Boston, MA: Macullar Parker Co., c1900. 8 p., [1] leaf of plates : col. folded map ; 19 cm.
Trees in Brookline, Massachusetts: map and index, by F. C. Prince and E. G. C. Boston, Geo[rge] H. Walker and Co. c1900. 8 + 1 p. (folded) maps.
Cummings, Morton Everett 1876-1949
b, Malone, NY; d, Reading, MA; Harvard, 1898; Harvard Medical School, 1901; President, Brookline Bird Club; Member: Nuttall Club, National Audubon Society, Audubon Society of Massachusetts, Audubon Society of Florida; AOU
Curtis, Mrs. Alice
Gave slide-illustrated wildflower lectures in the 1920-30s on Cape Ann.
Dexter, R. W. 1986. Two centuries of naturalists on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Essex Institute Historical Collection, v. 122, no. 3, 246-258.
Curtis, Charles Pelham 1860-1948
b, Winchester; d, Ipswich, MA; Educ: Paris, Cambridge; Lawyer & financier; "Patronal interest"; AOU
Cushing, Caleb
Cutler, Manasseh 1742-1823
13 May 1742 - 28 July 1823
b, Killingly, CT; d, Hamilton, MA
m, Mary Balch, 1766, at least 4 children
Yale College, A.B. 1765
Dedham, MA, teacher, 1766?
Merchant, Martha's Vineyard, 1766-69 (during this time admitted to practice as attorney)
Dedham, MA, studied theology, 1769-70
Ipswich Hamlet (from 178?, Hamilton), minister, 1771-1823
Practiced medicine, 1779-
Ran private school, 1782- (lasted over 25 years)
Army chaplain, 1775, 1776, 1778
Ohio Company, director, 1787 (Spent 1788-89 in Ohio)
Massachusetts General Court, member, 1800
U. S. congressman, 1800-1804
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.
Biographical dictionary of American science : the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, ed. by C. A. Elliott. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979, 360 p.
Blazier, George Jordan, ed. 1963. The Cutler collection of letters and documents, 1748-1925; letters and other memorabilia of Manasseh Cutler, 1742-1823, Ephraim Cutler, 1767-1853, William Parker Cutler, 1812-1889, Julia Perkins Cutler, 1814 -1904, and their relatives and associates, gathered and preserved by Mary Dawes Beach, cataloged by Mary Louise Otto. Marietta, OH: Marietta College, 102 pp.
Castiglioni, Luigi. Luigi Castiglioni's Viaggio = Travels in the United States of North America, 1785-87. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1983.
Cutler, Manasseh. 1888. Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL. D. 2 v. Cincinnati, R. Clarke & Co; Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987.
Dawes, C. Burr. Manasseh Cutler: Forefather of American botany and American botanical gardens. Columbus, Ohio Historical Center, 1972.
Dawes, Charles Gates. The Manesseh Cutler collection; comprising some ten thousand tenis, letters, diaries, journals, etc. 1762-1819. Moline, Desaulniers & co., n.d.
Dictionary of American biography. (NY: C. Scribner's sons, 1928-95. 20 v. + 10 Supplements).
Essex Institute Bulletin, vol. 12, pp. 88-89, 1881.
Humphrey, J. E. 1898. Manasseh Cutler. American Naturalist, vol. 32, no. 374, pp. 75-80.
Kennedy, G. G. 1916. Some historical data regarding the Sweet Bay and its station on Cape Ann. Rhodora, vol. 18, no. 214 (October), pp. 205-212.
Lawson, R. M. 2002. Passaconaway's realm: Captain John Evans and the exploration of Mount Washington. Hanover: University Press of New England, 157 p.
Manasseh Cutler, in Sibley's Harvard Graduates, edited by Clifford K. Shipton, vol. 16 (1972), pp. 138-154. Portrait
National cyclopaedia of American biography. (NY: J.T. White, 1898-1984), vol. 3.
Newcomer, L. N. 1960. Manasseh Cutler's writings: a note on editorial practice. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 47, no. 1 (June), pp. 88-101.
Peabody, A. P. 1887. Manasseh Cutler. New Englander and Yale Review, April, pp. 319-334.
Peck, T. W. & K. D. Wilkinson. 1950. William Withering of Birmingham, 250 pp., 52 pls.
Pulsifer, J. G. The Cutlers of Hamilton. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 107, no. 4 (Oct. 1971), pp. 334-408, 1 pl.
Short, J. E. 1988. Essex County leaders and the Ordinance of 1787: A fresh look. Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. 124, no. 2, pp. 102-124.
Venturella, , K. M. 1997. Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists, pp. 184-186.
Waterman, L. & G. Waterman. 1984. Reverends, soldiers, and scientists: The Belknap-Cutler ascent of Mount Washington, 1784. Appalachia, (Summer 1984), pp. 41-52.
Cutler contributed a summary of natural history to Morse's Geography (1793 ed.)
Brown, R. H. 1941. The American geographies of Jedidiah Morse. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 31, no. 3 (September), pp. 145-217, frontis.
Primary works
Journal, 1788. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 14-15.
On the sea anemones of Swallow House or Cave in the rocks at Nahant, near Lynn, Mass. PPAN
Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778. Genera plantarum : eorumque characteres naturales secundum numerum, figuram, situm, et proportionem omnium fructificationis partium Editio novissima. Viennae : typis J. Thomae nob. de Trattnern, 1767 [4], xix, [1], 580, [44] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) Library's copy has bookplate of the Boston Society of Natural History. Library's copy has mss. inscriptions of D. H. Storer and Manasseh
Cutler. Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778. Caroli a Linne, Genera plantarum : eorumque characteres naturales secundum numerum, figuram, situm, et proportionem omnium fructificationis partium. Editio octava post Reichardianam secunda prioribus longe auctior atque emendatior / curante Christiano Dan. Schreber. Francofurti ad Moenum : Varrentrappii et Wenneri, 1789 [i]-xxxii, [1]-872 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) Copy formerly belonging to Manassah Cutler, with his signature and 13 p. of botanical notes.
Papers, 1712 1886 1 narrow box. A small collection of papers of Manasseh Cutler, clergyman, physician, congressman, and co-founder of the Ohio Company. Cutler's papers include deeds to lands in Ipswich and Hamilton, Mass., legal papers, a small amount of correspondence, a ms. almanac for the year 1764, and a small notebook containing a classification of animals. Also included is some correspondence of Cutler's son Temple Cutler, mostly in regard to the Ohio Company. Also, a few ms. reports of the Ohio Company in the 1830s, and the estate inventory of Rufus Putnam Cutler.
The Manasseh Cutler collection, 1762-1819. 1762 1819 76 v. (on 9 microfilm reels) : negative ; 35 mm. + 1 index guide (26 l. ; 28 cm.) From 76 volumes of approximately 10,000 leaves of manuscript material, including letters, diaries, journals, sermons, astronomical papers, etc. Microfilm. Evanstan, Ill. : Northwestern University, 1984. Inventory
Papers, 1776-1822. 1776 1822 3 boxes ; 1 1/2 linear ft. Botanical notebooks, manuscripts, and printed matter. Inventory in the repository. Ulrich, Dennis Nicholas. Manasseh Cutler: early American scientist. A thesis ... for the degree of Master of Arts, Department of History. Oxford, O., Miami University, 1974 127 l., typed.
Book of Astronomical Recreations, Salem, Mass. [n.p.] 1973 269 l. Two reels. [Reel 2, Natural history, Misc. documents] Microfilm of ms. in James Duncan Phillips Library, Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts. Essex Institute. James Duncan Phillips Library. Astronomical recreations. Natural history notebooks.
Extracts from an old unpublished journal. Hours at Home, Sept. 1868, pp. 455-465.
Selections from a note book of Manasseh Cutler, entitled "A description of the animals in North America taken from actual observations". Essex Institute Bulletin, vol. 29, pp. 120-127, 1897.
An account of some of the vegetable productions naturally growing in this part of America. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1, pp. 396-493, 1784. Reprinted in Bulletin of the Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica, no. 7. Reproduction series, no. 4. Cincinnati, OH: J. U. & C. G. Lloyd, 1903. [Preface, 8 pp., portrait]
An account of some of the vegetable productions naturally growing in this part of America, botaniclly arranged. Columbian Magazine, v. 1 (1787), 431-
Observations on a singular natural production, in which one part appears to be a plant and the other an insect, accompanied with a specimen. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 3, pt. 1, pp. 161-164, 1 pl., 1809.
List of trees and plants. In: Belknap's History of New Hampshire.
Botanical papers of Manasseh Cutler, 1782-1808 (bulk). Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University.
Cutting, Hiram Adolphus 1832-92
Catalogue of the birds of Vermont.
The forests of Vermont, sugar maple industry, experimental farm work, cattle diseases, etc., etc. Montpelier, Vermont Watchman & State Journal Press, 1886. 180 pp