Adolphus Lewis Heermann
Adolphus Lewis Heermann is a Médecin and American ornithologist , born towards 1827 and died in 1865.
He is the son of an American doctor-naturalist of the army which worked in collaboration with Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) within the research service of the Pacific Railroad. He becomes off member of the Academy Natural Sciences off Philadelphia in 1845 and graduate of Médecine at the medical school of the university of the Maryland in 1846.
Heermann is famous for its many scientific voyages in the east and the west of the North America. In 1848, it is in Florida with John Krider (1819-? 1896), professional recoltor of birds. In 1848, it leaves in the west for the first time. Its voyage will last three years and it will pay some more: 1200 skins of birds. In 1855 - 1856, it remains towards El Paso and San Antonio.
Patient, Heermann withdraws in this last city in 1863. He dies in 1865 after being himself drawn top at the time of a shooting party.
Source
- Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Close (New Haven and London).
- Edward S. Gruson (1972). Words for Birds. In Lexicon off North American Birds with Biographical Notes . Quadrangle Books (New York): xiv + 305 p.
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