Frederick W. True
Frederick William True | |
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Frederick William True (July 8, 1858 – June 25, 1914) was an American biologist, the first head curator of biology (1897–1911) at the
United States National Museum, now part of the Smithsonian Institution.[1]
Biography
He was born in
10th census, 1879.[2] In 1881, True started working for the U.S. National Museum as a clerk.[3] That year he became librarian and acting curator of mammals, which positions he filled until 1883. True was curator of mammals at the U.S. National Museum (1883-1909), curator of comparative anatomy (1885-1890), executive curator (1894-1897), head curator of biology (1897-1911) and assistant secretary in charge of the library and international exchange service (1911-1914).[1] He was appointed to the board of the American Philosophical Society, of which he was already a member, on March 2, 1900.[4][5]
He started his career studying
were named by him, and have vernacular names in his honor.Works
- "Note on the occurrence of an armadillo of the genus Xenurus in Honduras"[7]
- Review of the Family of Delphinidae
- Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic (1904)
- Observations on Living White Whales (1911)
Family
He married Louis Elvina Prentiss in 1887, and at his death two of their children were living.[3] He was the son of Methodist clergyman and writer Charles Kittredge True. His brother Alfred Charles True was a noted agricultural educationist.
References
- ^ a b c d "Frederick William True Papers". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ a b Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ a b c Alexander Wetmore (1936). "True, Frederick William". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge, Volumes 39-40, American Philosophical Society, The Society, 1900.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ "True's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon mirus)". NOAA Fisheries Service. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
- hdl:10088/13418. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
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