Samuel Cabot III
Samuel Cabot III | |
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Born | September 20, 1815 |
Died | April 13, 1885 | (aged 69)
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Children | 9, including Lilla Cabot Perry and Godfrey Lowell Cabot |
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Family | Cabot family |
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Eponyms | Tragopan caboti Coereba flaveola caboti |
Described | Cabot's tern (1847) |
Samuel Cabot III (September 20, 1815 – April 13, 1885) was an American physician, surgeon, and
Early life
Samuel Cabot III was born in
Cabot attended Boston Latin School as a child, and received a A.B. from Harvard University in 1836, followed by an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1839.[1][2]
Medical career
After receiving his medical degree, Cabot went to
Ornithological career
Cabot developed an interest in birds and bird collecting at an early age. During his time at Harvard, he could often be found hunting for birds in the woods and rivers of Cambridge and Arlington, along with his brothers James and Edward.[5] While he was in Paris, he urged James to send him as many bird skins as possible, since American birds were in high demand among European collectors and he could trade them for European and Asian species to expand his own collection.[5] He collected a large number of birds in Yucatan during the Stephens expedition in 1841–1842, and over the next decade he published notes and descriptions of many of them, including at least a dozen that were new to science.[2][6]
In the 1850s the obligations of his medical work forced him to give up publishing on ornithological topics, but he retained a strong interest in the subject until the end of his life.
Two birds were named in Cabot's honor by his contemporaries:[7]
- Tragopan caboti (Cabot's tragopan or Chinese tragopan), an Asian pheasant first described in 1857 as Ceriornis caboti by the English ornithologist John Gould, on the basis of a specimen lent to him by Cabot.[8]
- Coereba flaveola caboti (now considered a subspecies of Bananaquit), first described in 1873 as Certhiola caboti by Spencer Baird, on the basis of a specimen collected by Cabot on Cozumel island, off the coast of Yucatan.[9]
In addition, a tern collected in Yucatán and first described by Cabot in 1847 as Sterna acuflavida
Personal life
Cabot was an
In 1844, Cabot married Hannah Lowell Jackson (1820–1879). Together, they had nine children (one of whom died in infancy), including artist Lilla Cabot Perry (born 1848), chemist Samuel Cabot IV (born 1850), surgeon Arthur Tracy Cabot (born 1852), and industrialist Godfrey Lowell Cabot (born 1861).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Briggs, L. Vernon. History and Genealogy of the Cabot Family. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1927, vol. 2, pp. 685–686.
- ^ a b c d e Cabot, Arthur Tracy. "Samuel Cabot". In Kelly, Howard A., and Burrage, Walter L., American Medical Biographies. Baltimore: Norman, Remington Co., 1920, pp. 188–189.
- ^ Stephens, John Lloyd, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. New York: Harper, 1858, vol. 1, pp. 107–118.
- ^ a b c "Samuel Cabot, M.D." Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 21, 1885–1886, pp. 517–520.
- ^ a b c d Brewster, William. The Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts. Boston, Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1906, pp. 81–84.
- ^ a b c "Notes and News". The Auk 3, 1886, p. 144.
- ^ a b Bangs, Outram. "Cabot's Types of Yucatan Birds". The Auk 32, 1915, pp. 166–170.
- ^ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, part 25, no. 337, 1857, p. 161; Gould, John. The Birds of Asia. London: Published by the author, 7 vols., 1850–1883, vol. 7, p. 65, plate 48.
- ^ Baird, Spencer. "Genus Certhiola Sundevall", The American Naturalist 7, 1873, p. 612.
- ^ Cabot, Samuel. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2, 1848, pp. 257–258.