Arthur Wilbur Henn | |
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Born |
Evansville, Indiana, US |
March 8, 1890
Died | May 8, 1959 Winter Park, Florida, US |
(aged 69)
Nationality | American |
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | Carnegie Museum of Natural History |
Arthur Wilbur Henn, (March 8, 1890, in Evansville, Indiana – May 8, 1959, in Winter Park, Florida), was an American ichthyologist and herpetologist. Henn succeeded Carl H. Eigenmann to the position of Curator of Fishes at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He was the longest-serving Treasurer in the history of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists from 1931 to 1949. He dedicated much of his life to conversation and public education.