| LC control no. | n 88218643 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bishop, Louis B. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1865-06-05 |
| Death date | 1950-04-03 |
| Place of birth | Guilford (Conn.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Ornithology |
| Affiliation | American Ornithologists' Union |
| Profession or occupation | Physicians |
| Found in | NUCMC data from State Hist. Soc. of N.D. for His Papers, ca. 1902-1920 (Louis B. Bishop; materials re. birds in Turtle Mountains-Devils Lake, N.D. region) The water-fowl family, 1903: title page (L. B. Bishop) The Auk, 1951: volume 68, number 4, page 440-446 (Louis Bennett Bishop, 1865-1950; Louis Bennett Bishop was born on June 5, 1865 in Guilford, Connecticut; he received his B.A. from Yale in 1886 and his M.D. from Yale Medical School in 1888; he carried on additional studies at the New York Polyclinic Medical School in 1888-1889; he then spent two years in travel and study at the Medical School of the University of Vienna; returning to New Haven in 1892; Dr. Bishop opened a private medical practice; Bishop was a successful doctor, but ornithology was his real interest in life; he spent many vacations in travelling where he could study and collect birds and their eggs; in 1895, 1901, 1902, and 1905 he went to North Dakota; in 1885 he joined the American Ornithologists' Union; from 1889 to 1901 his ornithological notes and papers were published almost exclusively in The Auk; the 600-page volume "The Water-fowl Family" by Sanford, Bishop, and Van Dyke was puiblished in 1903; after 15 years of medical practice, which included important posts both in surgery and in pediatrics at the New Haven Dispensary and in the Yale Medical School, Bishop retired from medical work in 1908 to devote his entire time to birds; in 1917 he moved to California, choosing Hollywood for winter residence and spending summers in Carmel; he died April 3, 1950; his larger collection of bird skins was purchased by the Chicago Natural History Museum, while his smaller collection of eggs and nests, as well as a series of sterna of North American shorebirds, was given to the Peabody Museum at Yale) ancestry.com, July 30, 2014 (Louis Bennett Bishop; born June 5, 1865 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut; died April 3, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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