Francis Hobart Herrick

Francis Hobart Herrick (19 November 1858, in Woodstock, Vermont – 11 September 1940, in Cleveland, Ohio) was an American writer, natural archives illustrator and Professor of Biology at Adelbert College of Western Reserve University.

Herrick attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire from where he went to Dartmouth College in 1881. His Ph.D. was obtained at Johns Hopkins University in 1888. The embryology and biology of shellfish, especially lobster, became his consuming interest.

He was approached in 1890 by the United States Commissioner of Fisheries to research and broadcast a sum up report on the American Lobster. Over a grow old of five years Herrick studied lobsters along the seaboards of Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire committed from a laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The finished con was entitled The American Lobster: A testing of its habits and development and appeared in volume 15 of the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission for 1895. This definitive affect includes some 100 detailed drawings of Homarus americanus. Herrick was greatly concerned more or less the unregulated lobster-fishing industry and that the limited migration of lobsters bedevils recovery of lobster populations with depleted.

His 1917 perform was the first critical biography of John James Audubon and void the public's romanticised image of him as an American woodsman. An ornithologist later a particular assimilation in the aetiology of instinct in wild birds, Herrick was the first speculative to chemical analysis the bald eagle in the field, and support popularise wildlife photography in the process. He became professor emeritus in 1929.

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