Clinton Hart Merriam

"Merriam" redirects here. For the U.S. paleontologist, see John Campbell Merriam.

Clinton Hart Merriam (1855-11-05 – 1942-03-19), U.S. zoologist and ornithologist.

• First president of the American Society of Mammalogists (1919–1921).

Clinton Hart Merriam, circa 1901.

Taxon names authored

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• 194 taxon names authored by Clinton Hart Merriam

Eponyms

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• 11 eponyms of Clinton Hart Merriam

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1888

• Merriam, C.H. 1888. Description of a New Spermophile from California. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 4: 317–321. BHL Reference page. 

1889

• Merriam, C.H. 1889. Preliminary revision of the North American pocket mice (genera Perognathus et Cricetodipus auct.) with descriptions of new species and subspecies and a key to the known forms. North American Fauna 1: 1–36, pl. I–IV. BHL Reference page. 
• Merriam, C.H. 1889. Description of a new Spermophile from Southern California. North American Fauna 2: 15–16. BHL Reference page. 

1890

• Merriam, C.H. 1890. Annotated list of mammals of the San Francisco mountain plateau and desert of the Little Colorado in Arizona, with notes on their vertical distribution, and descriptions of new species. North American Fauna 3: 43–86. BHL Reference page. 

1892

• Merriam, C.H. 1892. The geographic distribution of life in North America with special reference to the Mammalia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 7: 1–64. BHL Reference page. 

1893

• Merriam C.H. 1893. Descriptions of eight new ground squirrels of the genera Spermophilus and Tamias from California, Texas, and Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 8: 129–138. BHL Reference page. 

1895

• Merriam, C.H. 1895. Synopsis of the American shrews of the genus Sorex. North American Fauna 10: 57–98. BHL

1896

• Merriam, C.H. 1896. Ursus middendorffi sp. nov. Kadiak Bear. Preliminary Synopsis of the American Bears. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 10: 69–71. BHL Reference page. 

1897

• Merriam, C.H. 1897. A new fur-seal or sea-bear (Arctocephalus townsendi) from Guadalupe Island, off Lower California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 11: 175–178. BHL Reference page. 

1898

• Merriam, C.H. 1898. Descriptions of six new ground squirrels from the western United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 12: 69–71. BHL Reference page. 

1902

• Merriam, C.H. 1902. Four new Arctic Foxes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 15: 167-172.

References

• Osgood, W.H. 1943. Clinton Hart Merriam: 1855–1942. Journal of Mammalogy 24(4): 421–436. PDF. [obituary]
• Biographies of ASM Presidents. American Society of Mammalogists.