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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 5h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Portraits
Date:
circa 1920s
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943), ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist, was born in Norway. In 1881 he left for the United States and arrived in Washington, D.C., where he soon began working with the birds of the New World at the Smithsonian Institution with particular interest in aquatic birds. In December 1884, he was appointed Assistant Curator in the Department of Birds under Robert Ridgway, Curator. In 1889, after the resignation of Henry Crecy Yarrow, Honorary Curator of the Department of Reptiles and Batrachians, Stejneger became the first full-time Curator for the Department. In 1903 he served as Acting Head Curator of the Department of Biology for several months, and in 1911 he was appointed Head Curator of the Department of Biology after Frederick William True vacated the post. From that time until his death, Stejneger served both as Head Curator of the Department of Biology and Curator of the Division of Reptiles and Batrachians.
Summary:
Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943), ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist, Head Curator of the Department of Biology and Curator of the Division of Reptiles and Batrachians. sits with his arm resting on a table.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 22, Folder 13