Edmund Heller
Edmund Heller ( born May 21, 1875 in Freeport, Illinois, † July 18, 1939 in San Francisco, California ) was an American zoologist.
Life and work
From 1896 to 1901 Heller completed a zoology degree at Stanford University, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts of Arts. From 1926 to 1928 he was curator of mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. From 1928 to 1935 he held the post of director of the Washington Park Zoo held in Milwaukee from 1935 until his death in 1939, he moved to San Francisco as director for Fleishhacker Zoo. During the same period he was president of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. From 1898 to 1899 he attended the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos expedition, the Galapagos Islands, where he described several new species of fish such as the Galapagos damsel or White tips with Robert Evans Snodgrass. Beginning of the 20th century took him several research trips to Africa, in collaboration with Theodore Roosevelt about which he wrote in 1914 the book " Life - histories of African Game Animals".
Ehrentaxa
After Edmund Heller Taita Thrush (Turdus helleri ) and the Punadistelschwanz ( Schizoeaca helleri ) are named.