Edward Alphonso Goldman

Edward Alphonso Goldman (* July 7, 1873 in Mount Carmel, Illinois, † September 2, 1946 in Washington DC) was an American zoologist.

Life and work

1888 Goldman moved with his family in the Tulare County in California. At the age of 17, he worked as a foreman in a vineyard near Fresno. In 1892 he was hired by Edward William Nelson in the Bureau of Biological Survey, where he worked as a field biologist. Operated between 1892 and 1906 Nelson and Goldman field studies in Mexico, including ten years together. In 1911, he conducted research for two years in the Panama Canal Zone. Then he ran in Arizona until 1917 biological field work. From 1918 to 1919 he served in France with the Medical Service of the American Expeditionary Force, where he was responsible for the control of rats and mice. From 1919 to 1925 he worked as a senior biologist and from 1928 to 1943 as head of the department of biological research in the Bureau of Biological Survey. Between 1922 and 1937 he was a reserve major in the medical corps of the armed forces of the United States. From 1925 to 1928 he was chief of the department of wildlife and bird sanctuaries in the Bureau of Biological Survey. From 1927 to 1929 he was president of the Biological Society of Washington. In 1928 he received an honorary position as assistant in the zoological department of the United States National Museum. From 1944 to 1946 he was a staff member at the newly created United States Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1946 he was president of the American Society of Mammalogists.

Goldman has written over 200 publications, including the works Revision of the Wood Rats of the Genus Neotoma (1910 ), Rice Rats of North America ( 1918), Mammals of Panama (1920), The Wolves of North America ( 1944), The Puma: Mysterious American Cat ( posthumously, 1946) and Biological Investigations in Mexico ( posthumously, 1951). His research first descriptions that are often created in collaboration with Edward William Nelson, include Sorex ornatus juncensis, the Barbados raccoon, Goldman's water mouse, the Cana - dwarf opossum, the Mexican wolf and the Panama Nachtaffe.

Dedikationsnamen and honors

Goldman's name is immortalized in the epithets of about 50 mammal, bird, reptile, mollusk and plant taxa, including Chaetodipus goldmani (1900 by Wilfred Hudson Osgood ), cryptotis goldmani (1895 by Clinton Hart Merriam ), Neotoma goldmani (1903 by Clinton Hart Merriam ) and Heteromys goldmani (1902 by Clinton Hart Merriam ). 1911 named Edward William Nelson, the monotypic genus Hummingbird Gold Mania in honor of Goldman. On the Baja California peninsula a mountain peak named after him.