American ornithologist and avian paleontologist (1886–1978)
Alexander Wetmore
Wetmore with his wife Beatrice, 1969
6th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
In office 1945–1952
Preceded by
Charles Greeley Abbot
Succeeded by
Leonard Carmichael
Personal details
Born
(1886-06-18)June 18, 1886 North Freedom, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died
December 7, 1978(1978-12-07) (aged 92) Glen Echo, Maryland, U.S.
Education
University of Kansas (BA) George Washington University (MA, PhD)
Known for
Ornithology Paleontology
Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 – December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist.[1][2][3] He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was also an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences.[4][5]
^Alexander Wetmore, Ornithologist. Todayinsci.com. Retrieved on March 11, 2013.
^Paul H. Oehser (1980). "In Memoriam: Alexander Wetmore". The Auk. 97 (3): 608–615. doi:10.1093/auk/97.3.608.
^Biographical Memoirs, Volume 56, Office of the Home Secretary
^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
^"Alexander Wetmore". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
Frank AlexanderWetmore (June 18, 1886 – December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian...
Discovered by the RARE, 1947–48, under Ronne, who named this feature for AlexanderWetmore, Secretary of the Smithspnian Institution, who assisted Ronne in laying...
George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1924) 1886 – AlexanderWetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978) 1887 – Tancrède...
Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1961 – President Herbert Hoover 1962 - AlexanderWetmore 1963 - William H. Phelps, Jr. 1964 – Gilbert H. Grosvenor 1965 - James...
citizen of the United States in August 1944. She met ornithologist AlexanderWetmore (1886–1978) in 1944 and they married in 1953, not long after he retired...
Highlights Human Predation, with a Comment on the Status of the Family Raphidae Wetmore, 1930". Annales de Paléontologie. 91 (2): 167–180. Bibcode:2005AnPal..91...
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Commander Samuel Wilder King on the minesweeper USS Tanager (AM-5), and AlexanderWetmore directing the team of scientists, the expedition studied the plant...
Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of AlexanderWetmore" Arredondo, O. (1972). Especie nueva de lechuza gigante (Strigiformes:...
which also heralded the cathartid Phasmagyps. First described by AlexanderWetmore, the bird was referred as a "cedicnemidid" (a wastebasket taxon for...
exulans), with which it was able to co-exist. When ornithologist AlexanderWetmore observed the species in 1923, he described it as very curious, but...
also minimal, and was under the primary care of Assistant Secretary AlexanderWetmore. He was the first Smithsonian Secretary to retire, ending his tenure...
teter was identified as a subspecies by Friedman in 1933, but in 1964 AlexanderWetmore separated the western birds, which took the name meridionalis, which...
from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2013. Wetmore, Alexander (1931). "The California Condor in New Mexico" (PDF). Condor. 33 (2):...
Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 83 (1): 98–110. Swann, H. Kirke (1924–1945). AlexanderWetmore (ed.). A Monograph of the Birds of Prey (Order Accipitres), Part XI...
referred to as stem group representatives of the Phoenicopteriformes. Wetmore, Alexander (1926). "Fossil birds from the Green River Deposits of Easter Utah"...
as on Great Exuma in the original literature) and New Providence. AlexanderWetmore initially described the species from fossils of a single individual...
Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 181. ISBN 1-84028-152-9. Wetmore, Alexander (1926): Fossil birds from the Green River Deposits of Eastern Utah...
Bermuda in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was described in 1960 by AlexanderWetmore, from Late Pleistocene subfossil remains collected in 1956 by Bermudan...
Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana birds are in question. Ornithologist AlexanderWetmore claimed that he saw a pair flying near Independence, Kansas, in April...
Bulletin of the United States National Museum. It was authored by AlexanderWetmore, with the assistance of Bradshaw H. Swales, and was published by the...
of paedomorphosis. Two species have been described: †A. glenos Olson & Wetmore, 1976, the Moloka'i flightless ibis †A. brevis Olson & James, 1991, the...
introduced for the New World warblers in 1947 by American ornithologist AlexanderWetmore and collaborators with Parula as the type genus. Parula is now considered...
complete right ulna. The animal was described based on the former two by AlexanderWetmore in 1937, with all other currently referred material being assigned...
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