Clifford Hillhouse Pope

See also: Pope (homonymy)

Clifford Hillhouse Pope is a American herpetologist , born the April 11th 1899 with Washington (Georgia) and dead the June 3rd 1974 with Escondido.

It enters to the Université of Georgia in 1917 then passes in 1919 to that of Virginia where it obtains its Bachelor off Sciences in 1921. It takes part as herpetologist in a five years forwarding in China (1921 - 1926) organized by Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960) of the American Museum off Natural History. It explores initially the north of China, the Mongolia and the Gobi Desert . It discovers there first known eggs of Dinosaure S. Entouré only of Chinese, it has a command of their language well. It explores the south of China then. It constitutes important collections where they start to be described by Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890-1957).

On its return to the the United States, it makes appear many publications where it describes the S collected as well as articles intended for the general public. In 1928, it becomes preserving off attending American Museum Natural History within the department of herpetology. Pope makes appear The Reptiles off Clouded in 1935 and, this same year, is elected president of the American Society off Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. It loses its station of conservative, undoubtedly because of a conflict of personality with its director Gladwyn Kingsley Noble (1894-1940). It is the period of the Grande Depression and Pope, to earn its living, makes appear several books bound for the general public: Snakes Alives and How They Live (1937), Turtles off the United States and Canada (1939) and Clouded' S Animal Frontier (1940).

In 1941, Pope obtains the station of conservative of the Amphibien S and the Reptile S with the Field Museum off Natural History of Chicago under the direction of Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890-1957). It is devoted then to the study of the salamander S. It resigns of its station to devote itself to the writing and makes appear The Reptile World (1955) and The Giant Snakes (1961).

Source

Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History off Herpetology, Society for the study off amphibians and reptiles: 202 p.

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