Chapman Grant

Chapman Grant ( born March 27, 1887 in Salem Center, New York, † January 5, 1983 in Escondido, California ) was an American zoologist, historian and publisher. He was the grandson of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.

Biography

Chapman Grant was the son of Jesse Grant, the youngest son of former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. In 1892 he moved with his parents to San Diego. From 1910 to 1913 he worked as assistant to director Charles Haskins Townsend at the New York Aquarium. During his studies in 1913 in New York, he was an assistant curator at the Children's Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He left the museum for a military career, in which he finished as a major. In the 1930s and 1950s led him several expeditions of the San Diego Museum of Natural History and the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History to the West Indies (eg, Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Navassa, Culebra, Virgin Islands). During his studies of Caribbean herpetofauna discovered and he described fifteen new species, including the Blue Iguana ( Cyclura lewisi ), Aristelliger cochranae, Sphaerodactylus beattyi, Sphaerodactylus gaigae, Sphaerodactylus klauberi, Sphaerodactylus nicholsi, Sphaerodactylus roosevelti, Sphaerodactylus townsendi, Ctenonotus cooki, Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti, Eleutherodactylus cochranae, Eleutherodactylus cooki and Anolis Roosevelt ( Anolis roosevelti ).

1932 Grant Chapman founded the magazine Herpetologica (largest scientific reptiles and amphibians Journal in the U.S.), he also moved to 1960 even. Also, another magazine - Scientists Forum - was issued by him. In 1936 he founded the Herpetologists ' League, an alliance of several herpetologists in the USA. 1982 Hall named at the Museum of Natural History of San Diego to him. In 1983, he died in a nursing home in Escondido, California. He left a son Ulysses S. Grant V. (* September 20, 1920; † 7 March 2011).

Works

• The Herpetology of Jamaica ( with W. Gardner Lynn ), Bull Inst Jamaica Sci. Ser. 1: 1-148, 1940