Jonathan Dwight

Jonathan Dwight is a American ornithologist , born the December 8th 1858 with New York and dead the February 22nd 1929 in this same city.

Biography

He is the son of Jonathan and Julia Lawrence born Hasbrouck. After studies with Madison (New Jersey), then to New York, it enters to the Université Harvard in 1876. Very early, at 14 years, it is impassioned for the Oiseau X and the harvest of their eggs. He attends Nuttall Ornithological Club of Cambridge and then binds friendship with a group of young ornithologists who will play a considerable part in the history of this discipline to the the United States of America.

It is during its military service, in 1889 where, in addition to the training of the shooting which will be useful to him for the study of the birds, it starts to be interested in the Médecine and enters then to the medical school of the Université Columbia where it is graduate in 1893.

Dwight is interested in particular in the variations in the structure of the plumage and the wing S. Its knowledge of these variations lead it to take part in work of the committee of nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). Its collections are so important, that they are preserved by the American Museum off Natural History in 1909. The natural history museum lacking material on the Central America, Dwight starts to be interested in fauna of this area and in particular of the Costa Rica and the Guatemala. But the health condition of Dwight obliges it to stop its research. It Marie in 1901 with Georgina Gertrude Rundle who dies two years later then, in 1914, with Ethel Gordon Wishart Adam.

Its collection counts, at the time of its death, more of 65.000 skins, perfectly preserved and catalogued. Except for a collection of nests, it is American Museum off Natural History which receives, with dead of Dwight, its collections like its rich person library of which some of the oldest books of ornithology of the United States. It chairs the AOU of 1923 1929 of which it makes party as of its creation the September 26th 1883. It also makes party of the National company Audubon and the Société linnéenne of New York.

List partial of the publications

The Horned Larks off North America , The Auk , vol. VII, pp. 138-158 (1890)
Plumages and Molts off the Passerina Birds off New York , Annals off the New York Academy off Sciences 13: 73-360 (1900)
Gulls off the World , Bulletin off the American Museum off Natural History (1925)
has Study off the Scooters off the World

Source

James Henry Fleming (1930). In memoriam: Jonathan Dwight, The Auk , XLVII (1): 1-6.

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