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| 1889 births | |
| zimmer, john todd | |
| 1957 deaths | |
| university of nebraska-lincoln alumni | |
| american ornithologists | |
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A graduate of University Of Nebraska-Lincoln , he took an early interest in both Entomology and ornithology. From 1913 he worked as an agricultural adviser in the Philippines and later New Guinea , during which time he made important collections of Bird specimens. After his return to America he joined the staff of the Field Museum Of Natural History , in which role he compiled a ''Catalog of the Ayer Ornithological Library'', and participated in expeditions to Africa and Peru . In 1930 Frank Chapman recruited him as Associate Curator of Birds at the American Museum Of Natural History in New York , where he remained for the rest of his life. He made systematic revisions of the taxonomy of the birds of Peru and their relatives in other parts of South America , and in his later years combined this with studies of New-World fly-catchers, preparing the section on the Tyrannidae for Peter's ''Check-list of Birds of the World''. He was also a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union , and editor of its journal The Auk from 1942 - 1948 . Zimmer is commemorated in the names of a number of animals, including Zimmer's Tapaculo ''Scytalopus zimmeri''. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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