Samuel Washington Woodhouse

Samuel Washington Woodhouse is a Médecin and a American ornithologist , born the June 27th 1821 with Philadelphia and dead the October 23rd 1904 in this same city.

After elementary studies, he becomes farmer towards 1840. Impassioned for a long time by the natural history and in particular ornithology, he becomes the friend of Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) but also of John Kirk Townsend (1809-1851), George Leib, Samuel G. Morton, Robert Bridges, Paul Goddard, Joseph Carson, Elwyn and Zantzinger and other members of the Academy off Natural Sciences off Philadelphia. In its farm, it continues to study ornithology and thanks to the councils of Dr. Leib, he becomes an expert in Taxidermie.

But it is given to study the Médecine, it begins studies at the university of Pennsylvania. It obtains its title of doctor in 1847 and becomes doctor-assistant at the hospital of Philadelphia.

He resigns almost at once of his station and becomes doctor and naturalist with the U.S. Topographical Engineer Corps. He takes part in a mission, led by the captain Lorenzo Sitgreraves (for the first year) then by lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff (for the second year), which studies the border between the Creek S and the Cherokee S in 1849 and 1850. He explores the Texas, the New Mexico, the Arizona and the south-east of the California between 1851 - 1852. Its zoological observations are published in the Report one the Natural History off the Country Passed over by the Edploring Expedition Under the Command off Patent Captain L. Sitgreaves, U.S. Topographical Engineers, during the Year 1851 . It gathers 1.951 species (50 of them are new for science), of which 75% are plants.

It makes appear eight articles on the Oiseau X and the Mammifère S in the Proceedings off the Academy off Natural Sciences off Philadelphia (1852-1853). It described there three news species S of birds and four of mammals.

It takes part in 1853 in a forwarding led by Ephraim G. Squier intended to explore a possible layout of railroad to the Honduras.

It becomes corresponding American Ornithologists' Union in 1903 and member to life of the Academy of Philadelphia.

After 1856, it resigns of the commission and takes part in various forwardings in Central America then is surgeon in a military penitentiary. In 1859, he becomes ship's doctor on Cope' S Line which connect Philadelphia and Liverpool. After the American Civil War, he exerts medicine in Philadelphia.

He makes appear his memories under the title of has Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Newspaper off S.W. Woodhouse, 1849-1850 . Those are republished in 1992. Its newspaper is an exceptional document on the life from day to day of the Amerindian S Cherokee S, Creek S, Osage S and Comanche S. It as testifies on the changes as face these people in an environment which changes quickly.

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