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Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, and ornithologist. He became the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union, the first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, and the first head of that museum's Department of Ornithology.
Aug 24, 2006 · Joel Asaph Allen was born 19 July 1838 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died 29 August 1921 at his home in Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York. The intervening years witnessed one of the truly unique careers in natural history and taxonomy in American science.
Mar 17, 2021 · Joel Asaph Allen (19 July 1838 to 29 August 1921; Fig. 1) was a formative figure in the early years of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM). Prior to the constitution of the Society, Allen had been appointed by Hartley H. T. Jackson as a member of the Committee on the Organization of the Mammal Society ( Hoffmeister 1969 ).
Joel Allen was one of America's leading naturalists during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the many areas to which he made contributions one can specially notice the following: mammalogy, ornithology, biogeography, museum administration, scientific editing, specimen collecting, scientific administration, conservation ...
Joel Asaph Allen succeeded Verrill as the head of the Department of Ornithology in 1862. He had come to Harvard University as a student of Agassiz and with significant experience in natural history, having grown up collecting birds in western Massachusetts.
From 1874 to 1882 Allen concentrated largely on research and publication, His monograph The American Bisons (1876) was followed by one on North American pinnipeds—walruses, sea lions, and seals (1880).
By: Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), - American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) - Chapin, James P. (James Paul), - Lang, Herbert, Edition: Publication info: New York : Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History, 1917
J. A. Allen: The Shy and Retiring Giant William E. Davis, Jr. Joel Asaph Allen, who always signed his manuscripts J. A. Allen, was a truly remarkable man. Shy and retiring to the point of disability, suffering from debilitating long-term illness for much of his life, born into humble surroundings, and with a
JOEL ASArH ALLEN, a Founder of the American Ornitholog- ists' Union, died after a short illness at CornwMl-on-the-Hudson, New York, on August 29, 1921, in the eighty-fourth year of his life.
Hermon C. Bumpus, Joel Asaph Allen (1838-1921), Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 58, No. 17 (Sep., 1923), pp. 598-599
