Henry Sheldon Fitch (born December 25, 1909) is a U.S. herpetologist. Events 274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Herpetology (from Greek: ἑρπετόν herpeton, "creeping animal" and λόγος logos, "knowledge" is the branch of Zoology
He was born in Utica, New York. Utica is a City in the American state of New York, and the County seat of Oneida County. When he was one year old, the family moved to Medford in the Rogue Valley in Oregon. Medford is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. As of 2007 the city had a total population of 75675 and a Metropolitan area population The Rogue Valley is a farming and timber -producing region in southwestern Oregon in the United States. Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Growing up on his father's 116 acre (0. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U 5 km²) ranch, he had a keen interest in all the reptiles he could find already as a child. He retells that he particularly liked snakes, for "the real bonus was in seeing horrified adults scatter. A snake is an elongate Reptile of the suborder Serpentes Like all reptiles snakes are covered in scales. "
In 1926 he enrolled at the University of Oregon, but switched for graduate work to the UC Berkeley, where he got an M.A. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in zoology in 1937. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The University of Oregon (UO is a public, Coeducational Research university in Eugene Oregon, United States. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Zoology (from Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, " Logos " "knowledge" is the branch of Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. From 1938 to 1947 he worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) as a field biologist in the department for pest control studying rodents such as squirrels, gophers, or kangaroo rats. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A squirrel is one of the many small or medium-sized Rodents in the family Sciuridae. Kangaroo rats, genus Dipodomys, are small Rodents native to North America.
During World War II, he served from 1941 to 1945 in the Medical Corps as an Army pharmacist. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar He was stationed in the UK and later in France and finally in Germany. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. In 1946 he married Virginia Ruby Preston, with whom he would have three children. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After some difficulties in getting back his old job at the USFWS he left them in 1948 and accepted a position as superintendent of the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation and instructor of zoology, where he could again pursue his studies of snakes and lizards. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas City A snake is an elongate Reptile of the suborder Serpentes Like all reptiles snakes are covered in scales. Lizards are a large and widespread group of Reptiles of the order Squamata, with nearly 5000 species and ranging across all continents except He became assistant professor in 1949 and full professor in 1958. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
From 1965 on, he did extensive field work in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica,) is a Country in The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Ecuador topics. The Dominican Republic ( Spanish: República Dominicana;) is a nation located in the Caribbean region and shares the island of Hispaniola with In 1976, he took up field work in Nicaragua and succeeded in getting a five-year-plan for iguana conservation instituted in the 1980s. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America Iguana is a Genus of Lizard native to tropical areas of Central and South America and the Caribbean first described by Austrian He retired in 1980, but as of 2006, he was still an active herpetologist, collecting snakes and publishing papers. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
References
- Stewart, M. M; Echelle, A. F. ; Fitch, H. S. : Historical Perspective: Henry S. Fitch, in Copeia, Vol. 2000, No. 3, pp. 891 – 900. Interview with Henry S. Fitch, conducted on September 6, 1998 by his daughter Alice Fitch Echelle and her family. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar)
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