John Treadwell Nichols
John Treadwell Nichols ( born June 11, 1883 in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, † November 10, 1958 in Garden City, Long Iceland, New York) was an American zoologist. His research focus was the ichthyology.
Life and work
John Treadwell Nichols was the son of John White Treadwell Nichols and Mary Blake Slocum. He had five siblings. His father was a partner in the New York dry goods business Minot Hooper & Company. In 1906, Nichols wrote in the Harvard College, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology. In 1907, he began as an assistant in the mammal department at the American Museum of Natural History. Between 1913 and 1919 he was Assistant Curator, 1920-1927, guest curator and 1927 to 1952 curator in the fish department. In June 1910 he married Cornelia DuBois Floyd. From this marriage four children were born. In 1913 he founded the journal Copeia, the official journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. In 1916 he described together with Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray to the long extinct held Bermuda Petrel ( Pterodroma cahow ). Mowbray discovered in 1906 a copy in a flock of petrels on the island of Bermuda Castle Iceland 45 years before his son Louis had officially rediscovered together with David Balcombe Wingate this way. Nichols played opposite Robert Cushman Murphy to a team of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, which examined the shark attacks off the coast of New Jersey from July 1916.
Nichols wrote about 1000 scientific articles ( including the first descriptions of the genus Bajacalifornia, the fork -tailed Rainbow Fish and the way Pseudogobiopsis tigrellus ) and several books. He participated in numerous expeditions around the world. Nichols in honor Nichols mouthbrooders ( Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi ) was named.
John Treadwell Nichols was also a member of the Explorers Club, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ornithologists ' Union, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the American Society of Mammalogists, in the Nuttall Ornithological Club, the American Fisheries Society and the Linnean Society of New York.