Henry Wetherbee Henshaw
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Henshaw in 1904
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| Born |
March 3, 1850 Cambridgeport, Massachusetts |
| Died | August 1, 1930 (aged 80) Washington D.C. |
| Education | Cambridge High School |
| Occupation | Ornithologist |
| Employer | U.S. Biological Survey |
| Known for | Co-founding the National Geographic Society, Wildlife Conservation in Hawaii |
Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (March 3, 1850 – August 1, 1930) was an American ornithologist.
Henry Henshaw studied at Cambridge High School where he met William Brewster. In 1869 he was forced to give up school due to ill health, and went on a collecting trip to Louisiana. This marked the start of his career as a field naturalist.
In 1870 Henshaw traveled to Florida. In the same year he found the first Baird's sandpiper east of the Mississippi River, in Boston. It was through discovery that Henshaw became known to the secretary of the Smithsonian Spencer Baird. In 1872 he went to Utah as natural history collector on the Wheeler Expedition, continuing until it merged with the United States Geological Survey in 1879.
In 1872 Henshaw went to Salt Lake City on the Wheeler Expedition, as a naturalist, and in 1874 had his most successful field expedition, going from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Gila River and south-western Arizona. There he met with the native Apaches, and caught natural specimens for the Smithsonian. In 1875 he returned to Washington, and was approached by John Wesley Powell of the Bureau of Ethnology. Along with C. Hart Merriam and Grove Karl Gilbert, Henshaw set out West on the United States Geological Survey, where in addition to his ornithological work, Henshaw worked on linguistics and anthropology, eventually compiling two volume book titled Handbook of North American Indians North of Mexico.
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