Alfred G. Mayer

Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (* April 16, 1868 in Frederick (Maryland ); ∞ 1900 Harriett Hyatt, † June 24, 1922 on Loggerhead Key of the Dry Tortugas ) was an American scientist, marine zoologist (focus cnidarians ) and entomologist.

Life

Alfred Goldsborough Mayer was born on 16 April 1868 as son of the physicist Alfred Marshall Mayer and Katherine Duckett Goldsborough in Frederick ( Maryland). Prior to 1892 opted for the study Zoology at Harvard University, he became a doctor of engineering sciences and began graduate work in physics. Soon after, he beat Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910), director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ( MCZ) at Harvard University, in front of him at a work on jellyfish and assist later as a curator at the museum and trained him in this direction. In the years 1892-1900 recorded and described Mayer jellyfish, which he has collected to Australia, the South Pacific islands on the West Atlantic coast and around the Dry Tortugas. From 1900 to 1904 he worked as a curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Natural History.

In 1904, the Carnegie Institution approved in Washington, DC Mayer's proposal to build the Tortugas Marine Laboratory on Loggerhead Key. Although he bumped into a lot of problems, Mayor achieved great success, gained reputable biologists for important research projects and conducted many of his own studies. He published in 1910 a monumental work: Medusae of the World. Two years later, was followed by an equally important work on comb jellies ( Ctenophora ). Then Mayer began studying the ecology of coral reefs around the Dry Tortugas and the South Pacific and held his studies in several publications firmly. He was a pioneer in this field of research.

In 1918, Mayer changed his surname in Mayor, because German were not welcome in those years in the United States. Weakened from tuberculosis died Alfred Goldsborough Mayor on June 24, 1922 on Loggerhead Key and left his wife Harriett Hyatt, whom he had married in 1900, and four children. Then his wife on Loggerhead Key established a self-designed plaque.

Works

  • On the color and color -patterns of moths and butterflies. Cambridge 1894-97.
  • The development of the wing scales and Their pigment in butterflies and moths. Cambridge 1896.
  • Descriptions of new and little -known Medusae from the Western Atlantic. Cambridge 1900.
  • Some medusae from the Tortugas, Florida. Cambridge 1900.
  • The variations of a newly- Arisen species of Medusa. Macmillan, New York, 1901.
  • Effects of natural selection and race - tendency upon the color -patterns of Lepidoptera. Macmillan, New York 1902.
  • Medusae. Cambridge 1902.
  • Some species of Partula from Tahiti. Cambridge 1902.
  • The Atlantic palolo. Macmillan, New York 1902.
  • Medusae of the Bahamas. Eagle, New York, 1904.
  • Sea -shore life. New York, 1905.
  • Rhythmical pulsation in scyphomedusae. Washington in 1906.
  • Medusae of the world. Washington 1910.
  • Ctenophores of the Atlantic coast of North America. Washington in 1912.
  • Medusae of the Philippines and of Torres Straits. Washington in 1915.
  • A history of Tahiti. New York, 1916.
  • Nerve - conduction in Cassiopea xamachana. Washington 1917.
  • Report upon the scyphomedusae collected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer " Albatross " in the Philippine islands and Malay archipelago. Washington 1917.
  • Ecology of the Murray Iceland coral reef. Washington in 1918.
  • Navigation. Lippincott, Philadelphia, London, 1918.
  • Nerve - conduction in diluted and in Concentrated sea- water. Washington in 1918.
  • Toxic effects due to high temperature. Washington in 1918.
  • Hydrogen -ion concentration and electrical conductivity of the surface water of the Atlantic and Pacific. Washington in 1922.
  • The tracking instinct in a Tortugas ant. Washington in 1922.
  • Zoologist
  • Entomologist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1868
  • Died in 1922
  • Man
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