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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• 204 taxon names authored by Clinton Hart Merriam

Eponyms

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• 12 eponyms of Clinton Hart Merriam

Publications

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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. 
• Merriam, C.H. 1893. Rediscovery of the Mexican kangaroo rat, Dipodomys phillipsi Gray. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 8: 83–96. BHL Reference page. 

1894

• Merriam, C.H. 1894. Preliminary descriptions of eleven new kangaroo rats of the genera Dipodomys and Perodipus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 9: 109–115. BHL Reference page. 
• Merriam, C.H. 1894. Abstract of a study of the American wood rats, with descriptions of fourteen new species and subspecies of the genus Neotoma. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 9: 117-128. BHL Reference page. 

1895

• Merriam, C.H. 1895. Synopsis of the American shrews of the genus Sorex. North American Fauna 10: 57–98. BHL
• Merriam, C.H. 1895. Revision of the pocket gophers, family Geomyidæ, exclusive of the species of Thomomys. North American Fauna 8: 1–262. BHL; DOI: 10.3996/nafa.8.0001 Reference page. 
• Merriam, C.H. 1895. Revision of the shrews of the American genera Blarina and Notiosorex. North American Fauna 10: 1–34. BHL Reference page. 

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. 

1901

• Merriam, C.H. 1901. Descriptions of 23 new harvest mice (genus Reithrodontomys). Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 3:547-558. BHL Reference page. 

1902

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

1904

• Merriam, C.H. 1904. New and little known kangaroo rats of the genus Perodipus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17:139-145. BHL Reference page. 

1913

• Merriam, C.H. 1913. Six new ground squirrels of the _Citellus mollis_ group from Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26:135-138. BHL Reference page. 

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.