Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Witmer STONE
STONE, Witmer, naturalist and author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22, 1866; son of Frederick Dawson and Anne Eveline (Witmer) Stone. He was educated at the Germantown academy, Philadelphia, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1887, A.M., 1891. He served as ornithologist and botanist to the exploring expedition to Yucatan and Mexico under the auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, being one of the party [p.49] to ascend Crizaba, April, 1890. He was appointed conservator of the ornithological section of the Academy in 1891, and assistant curator of the museum of the Academy in 1892. He was an associate of the American Ornithologists' union, 1885-91, and fellow from 1892; chairman of the committee on protection of birds, 1898-1901; member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; corresponding member of the Biological society of Washington, D.C.; member of the Delaware Valley Ornithological club, and president, 1891-2, and editor of its Proceedings from 1891. He is the author of: Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey (1894); American Animals, with William Everett Cram (1902), and many articles, mainly on birds, mammals and reptiles in scientific societies, among which the following appeared separately: Birds collected in Yucatan and Southern Mexico (1890); Birds collected on the West Greenland Expedition of 1891 (1892); The Moulting of Birds (1896); Birds and Mammals of the McIlhenny Alaskan Expedition (1900); A Study of the Type Specimens of Birds in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with a brief History of the Collection (1899).
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