Glover Morrill Allen

Glover Morrill Allen ( born February 8, 1879 in Walpole, New Hampshire, † February 14, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American zoologist and ornithologist.

He was born the son of a clergyman Nathaniel Glover Allen and Harriet Ann Allen and studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After his PhD he held zoological lectures at Harvard University and was awarded the post of museum director for mammals in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. He also toured Central and South America, the West Africa, the Nile, the Belgian Congo and Australia. He was editor of the ornithological journal The Auk.

Works

  • Bats: Biology, Behavior and Folklore
  • Checklist of African Mammals
  • Extinct and Vanishing Mammals of the Western Hemisphere
  • Mammals of China and Mongolia
  • With Reginald Heber Howe: The birds of Massachusetts. 1901 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.22235 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.14609
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