| LC control no. | n 50026985 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dowling, Herndon G. (Herndon Glenn), 1921-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Dowling, H. G. (Herndon Glenn), 1921-2015 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1921 |
| Death date | 2015 |
| Place of death | Talladega (Ala.) |
| Field of activity | Herpetology |
| Affiliation | University of Alabama Marine Corps Institute (U.S.) University of Michigan New York Zoological Park American Museum of Natural History New York University |
| Profession or occupation | Herpetologists Wild animal collecting College teachers |
| Found in | His Studies of the black swamp snake ... 1950. Yearbook of herpetology, 1974: t.p. (Herndon G. Dowling) p. v. (H.G. Dowling) LC in OCLC, 4-1-95 (hdg.: Dowling, Herndon Glenn, 1921- ; usage: H.G. Dowling) Usrey Funeral Home website, viewed April 15, 2016 (Herndon Glenn Dowling, Jr.; born 1921; died 2015, Talladega, Ala.; known as Bud, Doc, Dr. Dowling and the Snake Doctor; as a teenager, he discovered one of the first mosasaur fossils found in Alabama, later donated to his alma mater, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; he was a Captain (ret) of the U.S. Marine Corps; earned a Ph.D . at the University of Michigan and become a world renowned herpetologist; Curator of Reptiles at the Bronx Zoo in New York; researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and teaching at New York University; his archive has been acquired by Western Connecticut State University and will become the Herndon Glenn Dowling Herpetological Collection) |
| Associated language | eng |
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