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American naturalist (1868–1889)
Charles Harvey Bollman
Born (1868-12-24 ) December 24, 1868Died July 13, 1889(1889-07-13) (aged 20) Education
Indiana University Bloomington Known for Studies on fishes and myriapods Scientific career Fields Biology Institutions
U.S. Fish Commission Academic advisors
Charles Harvey Bollman (1868–1889) was an American naturalist who published on fishes and
myriapods , becoming known internationally for his work in a short career before dying at the age of 20, considered by
David Starr Jordan one of the most brilliant and promising naturalists he had ever known.
[1]
Bollman was born in
Monongahela, Pennsylvania , December 24, 1868. He attended the
Indiana University at Bloomington where he studied under
John C. Branner
[2] and David Starr Jordan. Bollman was a founding member of the university's Independent Literary Society.
[3] He graduated in June 1889 and was appointed immediately after as an assistant in the
United States Fish Commission , and died of
dysentery contracted while collecting fish in the
Okefenokee Swamp of
Waycross, Georgia , on July 13.
[4]
[5] He was the only 19th-century ichthyologist to enter the Okefenokee.
[6]
Bollman published thirteen papers between the years of 1887 and 1889, including papers co-authored with Jordan. Of myriapods, he described 65 new species in North America.
[7]
J. S. Kingsley considered him "one of our best students of the Myriapoda",
[8] and he was considered by biologist Ralph Crabill "the most brilliant
chilopod systematist of this country in the 19th century".
[9] His collection of myriapods is housed in the
National Museum of Natural History .
[10]
He was posthumously commemorated by Jordan in the name of the goby genus
Bollmannia ,
[11] by
C. H. Gilbert in the fish
Opsopoeodus bollmani ,
[12] and by
Filippo Silvestri , who named the millipede genus
Bollmania .
[13]
See also
References
^
Riley, C. V. "Introductory note". in : Bollman, Charles Harvey (1893).
"The Myriapoda of North America" . Bulletin of the United States National Museum (46): 7.
^
Evermann, Barton Warren (1917).
"A century of zoology in Indiana, 1816-1916" . Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science . 26 : 221–222.
^ Livengood, W. W. (1908).
Independent Literary Society of Indiana University . Bloomington, Indiana. {{
cite book }}
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link )
^
Eigenmann, C. H. (1890).
"Charles Harvey Bollman" . The West American Scientist . 7 (50): 5–6.
^ Rathbun, Richard (1892).
"Report upon the inquiry respecting food-fishes and the fishing grounds" . Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1888 . Washington. p. LXXIV. {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^ Laerm, Joshua; Freeman, B. J. (2008).
Fishes of the Okefenokee Swamp . University of Georgia Press. p. 17.
ISBN
978-0-8203-3135-5 .
^ "News and notes". Science . 22 (564): 293–294. 1893.
JSTOR
1766701 .
^
Kingsley, J.S. (1894). "The classification of the Arthropoda (continued)". The American Naturalist . 28 (327): 220–235.
doi :
10.1086/275894 .
S2CID
85414194 .
^ Crabill, Ralph Edwin (1952).
The Centipedes of Northeastern North America . Cornell University. p. 10.
^ "Smithsonian Institution's Department of Entomology". Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America . 9 (4): 273–277. 1963.
doi :
10.1093/besa/9.4.273 .
^ Jordan, David Starr; Bollman, Charles Harvey (1890).
"Descriptions of new species of fishes collected at the Galapagos Islands and along the coast of the United States of Colombia, 1887-88, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer 'Albatross' " . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 12 (770): 164.
doi :
10.5479/si.00963801.12-770.149 .
^ Jordan, David Starr; Evermann, Barton Warren (1896).
The Fishes of North and Middle America . U.S. Government Printing Office. p.
249 .
^ Silvestri, Filippo (1896).
"I Diplopodi" . Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova . 2. 36 : 150.
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