Helen Beulah Thompson Gaige is an American zoologist , born the November 24th 1890 with Bad Axe in the Comté of Huron (Michigan) and dead the October 24th 1976 with Gainesville (Florida).

Biography

It is the girl of Elizabeth (born McDonald) and Charles E. Thompson. She studies with the Université of Michigan where she obtains her Bachelor off Arts (1909) and its Master off Arts (1910). Gaige becomes assistant with the museum of zoology of the university of Michigan in 1910 under the supervision of Alexander Grant Ruthven (1882-1971). When this one becomes the director of the museum in 1913, it gives the responsibility for the research programs in herpetology to Gaige. This one is named preserving assistant of the department of the Reptile S and the Amphibien S in 1918, then preserving in 1923. Not having the statute of professor, like Ruthven, it must supervise the students in a semi-official way.

It meets her husband, Frederick McMahon Gaige (1890-1976), in 1912: they take part both in Walker-Newcomb forwarding in Nevada. They marry the following year just after the return of Frederick Gaige of a scientific voyage in the mountains Santa Marta. The Gaige husbands will undertake several scientific expeditions.

In 1928, it signs with Ruthven, The herpetology off Michigan . As from 1930, after having obtained that the seat of the American Society off Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) is transferred in the buildings from the university from Michigan, it becomes it responsible for the publication of the articles on the reptiles and the Amphibians of the review Copeia (Clark Hubbs (1921-) dealing with the ichtyologic part). In 1937, this review being transformed into a quarterly large size, it becomes editor association, function which it occupies until 1969. Thanks to its action, Copeia becomes the first newspaper herpetologic of the world. It is withdrawn from its station of conservative in 1945 and is replaced by one of its students Charles Frederic Walker (1904-1979).

It carries out several scientific exhibitions, in particular in Texas, in Florida and in Colorado. Specialist in the Grenouille S Néotropical be, it contributes to the organization of the American zoology and in particular of the herpetology. It contributes actively to American Society off Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH), of which it will become the president of honor in 1946. The Gaige price, commemorating its memory, is allotted each year by the ASIH.

Sources

• Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History off Herpetology, Society for the study off amphibians and reptiles: 202 p.
• Joseph R. Bailey (1977). Helen Thompson Gaige. Frederick McMahon Gaige. 1890-1976, Copeia , 1977 (3): 609-611.

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