Richard Archbold

Richard Archbold is a Business man and a American zoologist , born in 1907 with New York and dead the 1976.

It makes fortune thanks to the Standard Oil Compagny. Aviator and considered explorer, it organizes, finance and leads four scientific exhibitions, the first with Madagascar and the three others in New Guinea. It is during those that the companies of the highlands of the interior of the island, that one believed uninhabited, are discovered.

In 1941, it settles with Lake Placid (Florida) there where it founds a station of biological research of more than 400 Hectare S. Of the scientists can come to study with residence fauna and the flora. After the Second world war, Archbold continues to live at Lake Placid while continuing to finance missions of explorations in New Guinea and Australia. It also contributes to the modernization of the area around Lake Placid by installing there centers of purification and running water. In 1973, the research center is enriched of more than 1.200 hectares. Archbold dies of the Cancer and off bequeaths its installations to the American Museum Natural History. Many an S of plants and animals are dedicated to him of which the Archboldia (a bird of the family of the Ptilonorhynchidae) by Austin Loomer Rand (1905-1982) in 1940, the Egothèle d' Archbold ( Aegotheles archboldi also by Rand in 1941, the Miro of the rocks ( Petroica archboldi ) always by Rand in 1940, the Newtonie d' Archbold ( Newtonia archboldi ) by Jean Theodore Delacour (1890-1985) and Jacques Berlioz (1891-1975) in 1931 , the Goat-sucker of Archbold ( Eurostopodus archboldi ) by Ernst Mayr (1904-2005) and Rand in 1935…

Source

Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Close (New Haven and London).

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