Barton Warren Evermann (October 24, 1853 – September 27, 1932) was an American
ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
.
Early life and education
Evermann was born in
Monroe County, Iowa in 1853.
His family moved to Indiana while he was still a child and it was there that he grew up, completed his education, and married. Evermann graduated from
Indiana University in 1886.
Career
For 10 years, he served as teacher and superintendent of schools in
Indiana and
California. While teaching in
Carroll County, Indiana Evermann met fellow teacher Meadie Hawkins. They married on October 24, 1875 and had a son, Toxaway Bronte (born 1879) and a daughter, Edith (born).
He was professor of biology at the
Indiana State University in
Terre Haute from 1886 to 1891. He lectured at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
in 1893–1894, at
Cornell University in 1900–1903, and at
Yale University in 1903–1906.
In the early 20th century, as director of the
California Academy of Sciences in
San Francisco, he promoted research on the
Revillagigedo Islands off the
Pacific coast of Mexico. Mount Evermann on
Socorro Island, the highest peak of the archipelago, was named in his honor. A species of lizard, ''
Anolis evermanni'', is named in his honor.
[Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. . ("Evermann", p. 86).]
In 1888, Evermann entered the service of the
United States Bureau of Fisheries, became an ichthyologist in 1891, had charge of the division of scientific inquiry in 1903–1911, and from 1910 to 1914 was chief of the
Alaska Fisheries Service
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S ...
. Evermann was
fur seal commissioner in 1892 and became chairman of the fur seal board in 1908.
Evermann died in
Berkeley, California, aged 78.
See also
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:Taxa named by Barton Warren Evermann
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19th-century American zoologists
20th-century American zoologists
1853 births
1932 deaths
American ichthyologists
American science writers
American taxonomists
Cornell University faculty
Indiana State University alumni
People from Monroe County, Iowa
Scientists from California
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area
United States Fish Commission personnel