Theodore Sherman Palmer

Theodore Sherman Palmer.

Theodore Sherman Palmer (January 26, 1868 – July 24, 1955) was an American zoologist.

He was born in Oakland, California, and went to the University of California. His parents were Henry Austin Palmer and Jane Olivia Palmer. His mother’s family included important people like Yale President Jeremiah Day and Roger Sherman, one of America's founding fathers. This means Palmer was Roger Sherman's great-great-grandson.

In 1889, Palmer started working for the United States Department of Agriculture in a group that studied birds and mammals. In 1891, he joined the Death Valley Expedition and led it for the first three months. He was Assistant Chief of the department from 1896 to 1902 and again from 1910 to 1914. He became interested in laws to protect wildlife and led a part of the department that worked on these laws from 1902 to 1910 and 1914 to 1916. He helped write the first draft of a treaty to protect birds that migrate between Canada and the United States in 1916. He also led the group that made the first rules for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1918. He retired in 1933.

Palmer was a member of about 25 scientific and conservation groups in North America and four in other countries. He was vice-president of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1928 to 1934 and helped start the National Audubon Society.

Two North American lizards are named after him: Uta palmeri and Elgaria coerulea palmeri.[1]. A chipmunk is also named after him: Neotamias palmeri.[2]

When citing a plant name he described, the abbreviation T.S.Palmer is used.

References

  1. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Palmer, T.S.", p. 200).
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 305–306. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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