| LC control no. | n 91079058 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Clemens, W. A. |
| Variant(s) | Clemens, Wilbert A. Clemens, Wilbert Amie |
| Located | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Birth date | 1887 |
| Death date | [1963,1964] |
| Place of birth | Perth (Ont. : County) Millbank (Ont.) |
| Place of death | Vancouver (B.C.) |
| Field of activity | Ichthyology |
| Affiliation | University of Toronto Cornell University University of Maine University of Toronto Pacific Biological Station (1908-1955) University of British Columbia Vancouver Public Aquarium American Association for the Advancement of Science Royal Society of Canada |
| Profession or occupation | Zoologists |
| Found in | Histories of new food fishes. IV, The mutton fish, 1920: title page (by Wilbert A. Clemens, professor in the University of Toronto) A study of the ciscoes of Lake Erie, 1922: title page (by Wilbert A. Clemens of the Department of Biology, University of Toronto) Food studies of Lake Nipigon fishes, 1924: title page (by W.A. Clemens [and two others] of the Department of Biology, University of Toronto) Fishes of the Pacific coast of Canada, 1940: title page (by W.A. Clemens, professor of zoology, and [one other], University of British Columbia) Idler, D.R. The energy expenditures of Fraser River sockeye salmon during the spawning migration to Chilko and Stuart lakes, 1959: t.p. (W.A. Clemens) Education and fish, 1968: title page (an autobiography by Wilbert Amie Clemens) foreword (died in 1963) University of British Columbia Archvives web site, viewed 11 October 2016: Wilbert A. Clemens fonds (Wilbert Amie Clemens, born in Millbank, Ontario, in 1887; attended the University of Toronto, receiving a B.A. in biology in 1912 and an M.A. in 1913, and earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1915; appointed as an instructor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Maine from 1915 to 1916, as a lecturer and Assistant Professor in Biology and Limnobiology at the University of Toronto from 1916 to 1924, as the Director of the Pacific Biological Station of the Biological Board of Canada from 1924 to 1940, as the Head of the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia from 1940 to 1952, when he retired, becoming a Professor Emeritus until his death in 1964 and a Special Lecturer in the Department of Zoology until 1959 and serving as Director of the Institutes of Oceanography and Fisheries between 1954 and 1957; member of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, the Canadian Committee of Freshwater Fisheries Research, and the Royal Commission on Fisheries, Saskatchewan; founding member of the Vancouver Public Aquarium; received a Coronation Medal in 1953 in recognition of his scientific achievements) Amicus database, 11 October 2016 (authorized access point: Clemens, Wilbert Amie, 1887- ; variant access point: Clemens, W. A. (Wilbert Amie), 1887-1964) |
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