Samuel Frederick Hildebrand

Samuel Frederick Hildebrand ( born August 15, 1883 in Zoar, Pike County, Indiana; † 16 March 1949 in Washington, DC) was an American ichthyologist.

Life and work

Hildebrand was the son of German-born parents who immigrated to the United States in 1864. From 1908 to 1910 he worked as an assistant to Seth Eugene Meek at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In 1910 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana State Normal School. In 1910 he became a research associate at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, DC, where he remained until 1914. From 1910 to 1912 he undertook with Meek two collection expeditions to Panama, which he 1916 work, The Fishes of the Fresh Waters of Panama in 1923 and the work of The Marine Fishes of Panama published. From 1914 to 1918 he was head of the U.S. Fisheries Biological Station, Beaufort, North Carolina. In 1918 he studied the mosquitoes regulation by small fish in Augusta, Georgia. From 1918 to 1919 he was director of the U.S. Fisheries Biological Station in Key West, Florida. From 1919 to 1925 he worked as an ichthyologist at the Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, DC. From 1920 to 1924 he was a consultant and investigator with the United States Public Health Service. In 1924 he went with the fish farmers, Fred J. Foster on a expedition to Central America. From 1925 to 1931 he was again director of the U.S. Fisheries Biological Station, Beaufort, North Carolina. From 1931 to 1949 he worked as a senior ichthyologist at the Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, DC. 1935 and 1937 he made ​​two further collecting expeditions to Panama. In 1949, he was posthumously honored by the Home Office of the United States with the Award for Distinguished Service. Hildebrand's research focused on the life of turtles that mosquito regulation and the way of life of fish larvae, the early development of North American fish, studies on the Central American ichthyofauna, marine fish in eastern North America, Panama, and Peru, as well as revisions within the family of herrings. Furthermore, Hildebrand was involved in the standard work Fishes of the Western North Atlantic.

Works (selection)

• The Fishes of the Fresh Waters of Panama, 1916 ( with Seth Eugene Meek )
• The Marine Fishes of Panama, 1923 ( with Seth Eugene Meek )
• Cold - blooded Vertebrates: Part I. Fishes, 1930 ( with Charles Whitney Gilmore & Doris Mable Cochran ).
• A Descriptive Catalog of the Shore Fishes of Peru, 1946