Francis Hobart Herrick [SEP] date of death
Francis Hobart Herrick
Francis Hobart Herrick (19 November 1858 Woodstock, Vermont - 11 September 1940 Cleveland, Ohio) was an American writer, natural history illustrator and Professor of Biology at Adelbert College of Western Reserve University.
Herrick attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire from where he went to Dartmouth College in 1881. His Ph.D. was obtained at Johns Hopkins University in 1888. The embryology and biology of shellfish, especially lobster, became his consuming interest.
He was approached in 1890 by the United States
lobster-fishing industry and that the limited migration of lobsters bedevils recovery of lobster populations once depleted.
His 1917 work was the first critical biography of John James Audubon and negated the public's romanticised image of him as an American woodsman. An ornithologist with a particular interest in the aetiology of instinct in wild birds, Herrick was the first researcher to study the bald eagle in the field, and help popularise wildlife photography in the process. He became professor emeritus in 1929.
Personal life.
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