Edward Alphonso Goldman
Edward Alphonso Goldman (July 7, 1873 – September 2, 1946) was an American field naturalist and
He was born Edward Alphonso Goltman in
He met Emma May Chase in 1901, and married her the next year, the marriage producing three sons.
Goldman published 206 papers during his lifetime[3] and described over 300 new mammals. In 1941, he had described more new mammals than any other living scientist. More than fifty animals were named after him,[7] including various mammals, some birds, a lizard (Sceloporus goldmani),[8] a snake, a turtle, a frog, and a mollusk. There is even a Goldman Peak in Baja California.[9] In 1946, he became the President of the American Society of Mammalogists.[3]
Goldman was a proponent of exterminating large predators such as wolves and coyotes and was instrumental in promoting programs to that end via the Bureau of Biological Survey.[10] He is credited with describing the coyote as the "archpredator of our time".
References
- ^ Young, 1947, pp. 91–92.
- ^ a b Young, 1947, p. 93.
- ^ a b c d Young, 1947, p. 101.
- ^ Henson 2016.
- ^ Young, 1947, pp. 93–94.
- ^ Young, 1947, pp. 94–95.
- ^ Sterling 1997.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5(Goldman, p. 103).
- ^ Young, 1947, p. 100.
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- ^ International Plant Names Index. Goldman.
Bibliography
- Henson, Pamela M. (2016). "A Baseline Environmental Survey: The 1910–12 Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone". Environmental History. 21 (2): 222–230. JSTOR 24691581.
- Sterling, Keir B., ed. (1997). "Goldman, Edward Alphonso". Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Greenwood Press.
- Young, Stanley P. (1947). "Edward Alphonso Goldman: 1873–1946" (subscription required). Journal of Mammalogy 28 (2): 91–109.