Robert Kennicott
Robert Kennicott is a American Naturaliste , born the November 13rd 1835 with New-Orleans and dead the May 13rd 1866 with Nulato in Alaska.
He is the son of Doctor John Albet Kennicott and Mary born Ransom. He grows with Chicago. Starting from 1853, it works with Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) with the National Museum off Natural History where it becomes one of the most active members of the Megatherium Club. He studies, in 1855, the south of the Illinois. He takes part, in 1856, with the creation of the Academy off Sciences of Chicago from which he will become the conservative towards 1863 then, later, the president. He organizes in 1857, the natural history museum of Natural history of the University North-western. Of 1858 with 1859, Kennicott deals of the referencing and the cataloguing of the received specimens of California by the National Museum off Natural History.
In April 1859, it leaves to collect specimens in the northern forests of the Canada and the Arctic tundra. It returns to Washington at the end of 1862 with an immense collection.
In 1865, a forwarding is organized by the Western Union Telegraph to determine a possible road for the installation of a telegraph line between the North America and the Russia via the Bering Sea. Kennicott directs forwarding, among the other naturalists who assists it, it is necessary to quote William Healey Dall (1845-1927).
Forwarding arrives at San Francisco in April 1865 but the discord reigns among the leaders of forwarding. It goes to north Vancouver where Kennicott falls ill. After being itself restored, it goes towards north. He dies of a Heart attack while crossing the Fleuve Yukon.
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