| LC control no. | no 96048925 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953 |
| Variant(s) | Tate, George Henry Hamilton, 1894-1953 |
| Birth date | 1894-04-30 |
| Death date | 1953-12-24 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | Morristown (N.J.) |
| Affiliation | American Museum of Natural History American Society of Mammalogists |
| Profession or occupation | Mammalogists Natural history museum curators Authors |
| Found in | Mammals of the Pacific world, 1945, c1944: t.p. (G.H.H. Tate; Amer. Museum of Natural History) LC database, 9-24-96 (hdg.: Tate, George Henry Hamilton, 1894-1953; usage not shown) Wikipedia, December 12, 2015: George Henry Hamilton Tate (George Henry Hamilton Tate (April 30, 1894 - December 24, 1953) was an English-born American zoologist and botanist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In his lifetime he wrote several books on subjects such as the South American mouse opossums and the mammals of the Pacific and East Asia ... He was born in London ... In 1912 he migrated from England to New York City with his family ... In 1942 he was promoted to associate curator at the American Museum of Natural History then promoted to curator in 1946 ... He died on December 24, 1953 in Morristown, New Jersey ...) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Hamilton_Tate> Biography in Context, accessed December 13, 2015: "George Henry Hamilton Tate," Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977 (Tate, George Henry Hamilton (Apr. 30, 1894 - Dec. 24, 1953), mammalogist, was born in London, England ... Tate joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History as a field assistant early in 1921 ... He then began a decade of yearly trips to South America, sponsored by the museum, that made him an expert on the mammals of that area ... In 1935 Tate turned his attention to the mammals of tropical regions other than South America, beginning with those of Australia and New Guinea ... Tate was a long-time member of the American Society of Mammalogists, and was vice-president of that group at the time of his death in Morristown, N.J. ...) |
 |  |  |
View this record in: MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
