L. Austin Jr Oliver
L. Austin Jr Oliver , born the May 24th 1903 in Tuckahoe (in the State of New York) and dead the December 31st 1988, is a American ornithologist .
The weather is his studies initially at the Wesleyan university in the Connecticut then with Harvard. It is interested actively in the study of the Oiseau X and takes part, as of 1927, in an scientific exhibition in the peninsula of the Yucatan and in the British Honduras, organized on behalf of the Museum off Comparative Zoology of Harvard.
In 1931, it obtains the first title of doctor of ornithology delivered by the university of Harvard. Since 1930, he works for the office of biological research of the Minnesota but he loses his employment at the time of the great depression. He survives while cultivating and by marketing Orchidée S.
He takes part in the rows of U.S. Navy in the war of the Pacific and benefits from his displacements to collect specimens (birds but also Mammifère S) which he off dispatches with the Museum Comparative Zoology.
At the end of the war, it is stationed in Korea what enables him to publish, in 1948, The Birds off Korea . In 1946, it is transferred to the Japan and is affected with the team of the general MacArthur. Oliver has in load the organization of the legislation concerning the wildlife.
It goes back to the USA in 1950, where it will make appear, in 1953, in collaboration with the marquis Nagahisa Kuroda, The Birds off Japan, Their Status and Distribution , which quickly becomes a reference book.
Oliver becomes professor of zoology at the university of the air force based on the Maxwell basis in Alabama. In 1955 - 1956, it takes part in a forwarding in the Antarctic led by the admiral Byrd.
In 1957, he becomes the conservative of the natural history museum of natural history of Florida and contributes to a substantial increase in the collections which reach nearly 18.000 specimens. It will preserve this station until 1977.
In 1961, it makes off appear Birds The World which becomes a kind of best-seller and will be translated into seven languages.
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