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William Stimpson is a American Naturaliste , born the February 14th 1832 with Roxbury in the Massachusetts and dead the May 26th 1872 with Ilchester of Tuberculose.
Impassioned very young person by the Natural history, it meets at 15 years Augustus Addison Gould (1805-1866), celebrates American conchyliologist. This one is interested in this young man and its book Invertebrata Massachusetts offers off to him which quickly becomes its book of bedside.
His/her parents incite it to follow courses of engineering, but the Stimpson young person prefers the study of nature and the harvest of Escargot S savages. He thus spends the summer 1848 on board a vessel of fishing in the islands of Grand Manan where he studies the marine animal-life. Thanks to the recommendation of Gould, Stimpson is engaged as laboratory assistant by Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873) with Cambridge. In 1851, it makes off appear Shells New England where it describes 344 species of Mollusque S (the work of Gould quoted only 137 of the same area of them).
Stimpson is one of the first to explore the north of the Pacific Ocean using dredger, in particular of 1852 with 1856. He is engaged in 1852 by North Pacific Exploring Expedition ordered by the capitain John Rogers. This mission leads it until in the Bering Sea and the Japan, which opened just to the Westerners then. The exploitation of the immense quantity of data which it collected occupies it during nine years. It obtains an honorary doctorate of medicine in 1860 decreed by the Université of Columbia.
It Marie with Annie Gordon, doctor of Ilchester, the July 28th 1864 with which he will have three children. In 1865, it leaves off the National Museum Natural History where it worked hitherto, and takes the direction of the Academy off Sciences of Chicago. There, it contributes to enrich the collections and the library by the institution. It becomes, in 1868, the youngest member of the National Academy off Sciences.
Stimpson is very tested by the destruction of Academy in 1871, at the time of the large fire which devastates Chicago, catastrophe where all its collections are lost. Irony, the building where the Academy was installed had been declared resistant to the fires.
He is in particular the author of has Revision and Synonymy off the Mestraceous Mollusks off New England (1851) and of Notes one North American Crustacea (1859). Its many scientific articles relate to, for half, the Mollusque S and the Crustacé S. It describes more than 900 species. Many species were dedicated to him.
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