Henry Augustus Pilsbry

Henry Augustus Pilsbry ( born December 7, 1862 in Iowa City (Iowa ), † 26 October 1957 Lantana ( Florida)) was an American biologist, malacologist and Karzinologe with interests in other fields of science. He was for more than half a century in many areas of the systematics of invertebrates an extremely prominent figure. For most of his career, his expertise was in the classification of major groups of organisms such as barnacles ( Cirripedia ), tunicates ( Tunica ), North American country molluscs, and other unchallenged.

Childhood, youth, training

Pilsbry ( often mistakenly pronounced as Pilsbury ) spent his childhood and youth in Iowa. As a child he was always called "Harry" Pilsbry. Early on, he showed a lively interest in the molluscs that he could find, even though the native species range was not overly rich.

Pilsbry studied at the University of Iowa, where he completed his education in 1882 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Career

After Graduation Pilsbry did not immediately work in his area of ​​interest. Instead, he worked only once several years for publishers and magazines. In his spare time, however, he devoted himself to the study of molluscs.

In 1887, he finally found a job as an editor in New York ( City). There he soon met at George Washington Tryon. This was the local specialist for molluscs and both head writer of the resulting multi-volume Manual of Concology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The meeting resulted in a compound which already led to a few months, that Tryon Pilsbry hired as an assistant. Tryon was undoubtedly very impressed by the skills of the young Pilsbry as a lecturer, his very good knowledge in technical illustration, but mostly by his strong interest in the study of molluscs and its amazing expertise in this field.

Three months after Pilsbry began his work, died George Tryon. Probably to the surprise of all was allowed to be fresh set, only 25 -year-old assistant take over the title of " Conservator of the Conchology Section" and " publisher " of the Manual of Conchology.

But Pilsbry shows up soon that he was the high expectations, because his scientific results are remarkable only in terms of quantity. During the next five years he gave out hundreds of detailed pages of the Manual of Conchology. Many of the plates he prepared himself before. He also founded The Nautilus, a Malacological Journal of rank that exists until the 21th century into it. The College, where he had studied, the University of Iowa, honored him in 1899 with the award of Doctor of Science " He later received two more honorary doctorates. 1940 by the University of Pennsylvania in 1941 and from Temple University.

In this period he also married Adeline Avery.

For the rest the next 57 years Pilsbry spent virtually all his time to writing scientific papers. He has published over 3,000 articles, mostly when he was at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Hence also the biggest part of his lengthy article was published by the Academy. However, the shorter article came out more in the magazine The Nautilus. Regarding the publications, he was usually the sole author of the article. Nevertheless, there were papers with co-authors or junior authors who rather conveyor rather than scientists were sometimes.

It is amazing that Pilsbry is not only limited to the areas of research, who were his main interests, but he was moving sometimes in other fields of science of geology on Paläolontologie up to the taxonomy of Brachiopoda into it.

His field work provided him with a steady stream of new species being studied, dissected and illustrated. Therefore, an almost endless number of ways, he is credited. This was the name Pilsbry over 5000 organisms, and only the published list of all these species comprised 218 pages. Pilsbry led by extremely much field work and was thus naturally an expert in the field work of any condition. He collected molluscs practical throughout the United States. But his range of action was not limited only to the U.S., but he also worked in a variety of countries: Argentina, Australia, the Bahamas, Cocos Islands, Cuba, on the Galapagos Islands, Guatemala, the Marquesas Islands, in Mexico, Panama, Peru and in other places. He advanced own abilities systematically through partnerships with other professionals. This is particularly worth mentioning the Japanese space cooperation with Joseph Bequaert in Africa and with Yoichiro Hirase.

End of the autumn of 1957 suffered Pilsbry in his work at the Philadelphia Academy a heart attack. It seemed that he would recover from this serious health incident. But that was not the case. He died one and a half months later in his winter house in a similar attack.

Henry Augustus Pilsbry is buried in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania in the cemetery of St. Asaph 's Church

Bibliography

Main Works: Manual of Conchology

Pilsbry was from 1887 to 1888 assistant to George Washington Tryon. After his death (1888 ) was the editor of the multivolume Pilsbry 's Manual of Conchology and appears from Volume 12 (1890 ) on the title page of the Manual of Conchology.

The most important item

  • Pilsbry, H. A.: May 14, 1889; "New and little known American mollusks, no I. "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 81-89, pl. 3
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: February 25, 1890; "New and little known American mollusks, no II"; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 411-416, pl. 12
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: December 21, 1890; "New and little known American mollusks, no 3 " Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 42: 296-302, pl. 5
  • Pilsbry, H. A. 1895; "Catalogue of the Marine Mollusks of Japan, with Descriptions of New Species, and Notes on Others Collected by Frederick Stearns "; Detroit: F. Stearns. 196 p. [ includes 30 species of modern brachiopods ]
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1900; " Mollusca of the Great Smoky Mountains "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 52: 110-150.
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1900; "Note on Polynesian and East Indian Pupidae "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 52: 431-433.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. 1902; " New country Mollusca from Idaho "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 54: 593
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1905; " Mollusca of the South Western States, I: Urocoptidae; Helicidae of Arizona and New Mexico ," Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 57: 211-290.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Hirase, Y.: 1905; "Catalogue of the Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Taiwan (Formosa ), with description of new species"; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 57: 720-752.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. 1907; "The Barnacles ( Cirripedia ) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National Museum "; Bul. United States National Museum 60, 122 p.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Ferriss, J. H.: 1907; " Mollusca of the Ozarkian Fauna ", Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 58: 529-567.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Ferriss, J. H.: 1910; " Mollusca of the South Western States, III: The Huachuca Mountains, Arizona "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61: 495-516.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Ferriss, J. H.: 1910; " Mollusca of the South Western States: IV The Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 62: 44-147.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. 1911; Non -marine mollusca of Patagonia. Princeton: The University.
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1912; "A study of the variation and zoogeography of Liguus in Florida "; J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia; 15 ( 2nd ser. ): 429-471.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. ( 1915). " Mollusca of the South Western States, VI: The Hacheta Grande, Florida, and Peloncillo Mountains, New Mexico"; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 68: 323-350.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Ferriss, J. H.: 1915; " Mollusca of the South Western States VII: The Dragoon, Mule, Santa Rita, Baboquivari, and rank Tucson, Arizona "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 68: 363-418.
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1916; "The Sessile Barnacles ( Cirripedia ) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National Museum, including a monograph of the American species". Bul. United States National Museum 93: 366
  • Pilsbry, H. A. J. H. & Ferriss 1917; " Mollusca of the South Western States VIII: The Black Range, New Mexico "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 69: 83-107.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Ferriss, J. H.: 1919; ". Mollusca of the South Western States IX: The Santa Catalina, Rincon, Tortillita and Galiuro Mountains X. The mountains of the Gila headwaters "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 70: 282-333.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Ferriss, J. H.: 1923; " Mollusca of the South Western States, XI - From the Tucson Range to Ajo, and mountain ranges in between the San Padro and Santa Cruz rivers, Arizona "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 75: 47-103.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Joseph Charles Bequaert | Bequaert, J.: 1927; ". The Aquatic Mollusks of the Belgian Congo With a geographical and ecological account of Congo Malacology "; Bul. United States National Museum 53: 69-659.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. 1934; " Zoological Results of the Dolan West China Expedition of 1931, Part II, Mollusks ". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 86: 5-28.
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1939; "Land Mollusca of North America north of Mexico " vol. I part 1 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. pp. 1-574.
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1940; "Land Mollusca of North America north of Mexico " vol. I part 2 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. pp. 575-994.
  • Pilsbry, H. A. 1946; "Land Mollusca of North America north of Mexico " vol. II part 1 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. pp. 1-520.
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1948; "Land Mollusca of North America north of Mexico " vol. II part 2 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. pp. 521-1113.
  • Pilsbry, H. A.: 1948; "Inland Mollusks of Northern Mexico I. The genera Humboldtiana, Sonor Ella, Oreohelix and Ashmunella. "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 100: 185-203.
  • Pilsbry.H.A: 1953. "Inland Mollusca of Northern Mexico II Urocoptidae, Pupillidae, Strobilopsidae, Valloniidae, and Cionellidae. "; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 105: 133-167.

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