Henry Weed Fowler

Henry Weed Fowler ( born March 23, 1878 in Holmes, Pennsylvania, † June 21, 1965 ) was an American zoologist.

Life

Fowler studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan. At the beginning of the 20th century, he entered the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, where he worked from 1903 to 1922 as an assistant. From 1922 to 1934 he was on the Board of the Section vertebrates and from 1934 to 1940 he was curator of fishes, reptiles, and curator of fishes from 1940 until his death in 1965.

In 1927 he was co-founder of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists as its cashier and treasurer, he served until the end of 1927.

1936/37, he took part in an expedition to Bolivia.

In his work he dealt with various issues and animal species, including crustaceans, birds, reptiles and amphibians. However, his main focus was the fish.

Works (selection)

• Fishes from the Madeira River, Brazil Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci, Philadelphia, 1913
• Fishes from Nicaragua, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci, Philadelphia, 1923
• Some New taxonomic names of fishlike vertebrates, emergency. Nat. Philadelphia, 1958

• Zoologist
• Americans
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1965
• Man