Wilfred Hudson Osgood
Wilfred Hudson Osgood ( born December 8, 1875 in Rochester, New Hampshire, † June 20, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American zoologist.
Life
Osgood was the son of a watchmaker. After a biology degree, he graduated in 1899 from Stanford University and Bachelor of Arts. From 1897 to 1909 Osgood worked at the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States, where Clinton Hart Merriam ( 1855-1942 ), who was then Director of the Bureau of Biological Survey, a major influence exercised over him. Between 1899 and 1909 Osgood conducted research in Alaska. In 1909 he got a job at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he served as curator of the departments worked for birds and mammals until 1921. In 1921, he broke Charles Barney Cory as curator of the Zoological Department from, a position which he held until 1940. In 1918 he received his doctorate with the thesis, published in 1921 Monographic Study of the American Marsupial Caenolestes to the Ph.D.
In addition to his research in Alaska and the United States Osgood led many expeditions for collection at the Field Museum, which have led him to Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia and Indochina. Together with Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) he traveled in 1926-1927, the kingdom of Abyssinia, and in 1939 he accompanied a Swedish expedition to the Strait of Magellan. 1906, 1910 and 1930, he visited several European museums to study the collections there.
Osgood is the author of publications: Revision of Pocket Mice (1900), Revision of the genus of Mice " Peromyscus " (1909 ), Alaska Biological Invertigations and Yukon ( 1909), Fur Seals of Pribilof Islands ( 1915), The Mammals of Asiatic Expeditions (1932 ), Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia ( 1936) ( in collaboration with Fuertes ), The mammals of Chile (1943 ) and of about 180 scientific papers on the systematics, anatomy and behavior of birds and mammals.
Memberships
Osgood was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ornithologists ' Union and he was the founder and first president of the Cooper Ornithology Club in California. In addition, he was from 1900 to 1909 secretary of the Biological Society of Washington, trustees at the Chicago Zoological Society and corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London and the British Ornithologists ' Union. From 1924 to 1926 he was president of the American Society of Mammalogists.
Dedikationsnamen
After Wilfred Hudson Osgood among others Schwarztinamou ( Tinamus osgoodi ), the Vietnamese rat Rattus osgoodi, Osgood Kurzschwanzopossum ( Monodelphis osgoodi ) Altiphrynoides osgoodi, Osgood's horseshoe bat ( Rhinolophus osgoodi ), the Michoacán - deer mouse ( Osgoodomys banderanus ) and Phyllotis osgoodi are named.