LC control no. | n 79117249 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Carr, Archie, 1909-1987 |
Variant(s) | Carr, Archie Fairly, 1909-1987 |
Birth date | 1909-06-19 |
Death date | 1987-05-21 |
Field of activity | Herpetology Ecology Conservation biology Sea turtles |
Affiliation | University of Florida |
Profession or occupation | Herpetologists Ecologists Conservationists Authors |
Found in | His A contribution to the herpetology of Florida, 1940. His The reptiles, c1980: t.p. (Archie Carr) Grapevine, v. 44, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1987): p. 4 (d. 5/21/87) His Handbook of turtles, 1995: CIP t.p. (Archie Carr) data sht. (b. 06-16-09) Wikipedia website, April 8, 2014 (Archie Fairly Carr, Jr., June 16, 1909 - May 21, 1987, American herpetologist, ecologist, and conservationist, known for bringing attention to the world's declining sea turtle population due to over-exploitation and loss of safe habitat) Society for Conservation Biology web site, April 9, 2020: (Archie Carr ; conservation biologist ; died at his home on Wewa Pond near the town of Micanopy, Florida, on May 21 1987 ; world's leading authority on sea turtles, tropical field ecologist, writer for audiences of both scientific and popular literature ; Archie Fairly Carr Jr., born on June 16, 1909 in Mobile Alabama) <https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1987.tb00026.x> Wikipedia web site, April 9, 2020: (He studied zoology at the University of Florida, eventually specializing in herpetology. He further refined that interest to the study of turtles and eventually became one of the world's foremost authorities on sea turtles. From UF, he received bachelor's degree in 1932, M.S. in 1934, and Ph.D. in 1937. He started out as a high school science teacher before becoming a college professor. Carr became a bit of a legend at the University of Florida) |
Associated language | eng |