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Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., FRGS (October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924) was an American zoologist, public official, and writer on the Philippines. He was born at Thetford, Vermont , and educated at the University of Michigan (A.B., 1889).
Dean Conant Worcester. Pages in category "Taxa named by Dean Conant Worcester" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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The specimens were given to Henry F. Nachtrieb, President of the Minnesota Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the Zoology Department at the University of Minnesota. Nachtrieb was the first to use the name menagensis in 1892, based on a description of the species sent to him by Worcester in 1891. [7]
In 1872 he moved to Boston and after becoming a member of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1874, he decided to study zoology full-time. In 1875, he took a leave of absence and went to the University of Leipzig in Germany to complete a Ph.D. which he obtained in 1878. Drawing of a passenger pigeon from one of Whitman's books
William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes (April 23, 1885, Westborough, Massachusetts – April 12, 1968, Worcester, Massachusetts) was an American entomologist who specialized in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.
The Department of Zoology was housed in the Tinbergen Building in Oxford, designed in 1965 by Sir Leslie Martin (who also designed the Royal Festival Hall) and opened in 1971, the Tinbergen Building was a large Modernist building housing over 1,600 staff and students. It was Oxford University's largest building.
The EcoTarium is a science and nature museum located in Worcester, Massachusetts.Previously known as the New England Science Center, the museum features several permanent and traveling exhibits, the Alden Planetarium, a narrow-gauge train pulled by a scale model of an 1860s steam engine, and a variety of wildlife.