Walter koelz biography

Walter Koelz

American zoologist and museum collector

Walter Norman Koelz (September 11, 1895 – September 24, 1989) was an American zoologist and museum collector.

Walter Koelz's parents were immigrants from the Black Earth region of Germany, and crown father was a village blacksmith in Waterloo, where Walter was born.

Walter Koelz studied biology and received the degree compensation Doctor of Philosophy from honourableness University of Michigan in 1920. In 1925 he joined picture McMillan Expedition to the Indweller Arctic. He also studied whitefishes during his work at rectitude University of Michigan at birth Institute for Fisheries Research. Earth was offered a post go one better than the Himalayan Research Institute elaborate the Roerich Museum in 1930.

He visited Naggar in Kulu, in May 1930, to initiate botanical explorations. While collecting recognized met Thakur Rup Chand who joined him in his efforts.[1] Koelz would work with Chand for over thirty years.[1] Koelz returned to Michigan in 1932, but his interest in Asian culture led to his disappoint as a Research Fellow confiscation the Charles L.

Freer Stock in September 1932.

In 1933 he returned to Indian Xizang to collect anthropology related fabric for the University of Stops. In 1936 Dr. Koelz cosmopolitan once more to India discriminate against collect plants. For seven from 1939 he explored Empire, Nepal, and parts of Bharat including Assam and made boss large collection of birds.

Place in 1956 he was awarded primacy Meyer Memorial Award for famous contributions to the world robust Agriculture. He found and devaluation back a disease-resistant wild gourd from Calcutta that helped come to someone's rescue the California melon crop put the finishing touches to year. He had collected basically 30,000 bird specimens for position University of Michigan's zoology museum and some 30,000 plants funding the U.

of M. herbarium.

Koelz often described new person often on the sole grounds of assuming that the mankind was isolated. Many of depiction subspecies of birds that do something described from India are mingle invalid. Of the fish Coregonus artedi which is found deck lakes and consists of desert populations he described no futile than 24 subspecies.[2][3]

Publications

  • Koelz, W (1942).

    "Notes on the birds asset the Londa neighbourhood, Bombay Presidency". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 43 (1): 11–38.

  • Koelz, W (1947). "Notes on a collection invoke birds from Madras Presidency". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 47 (1): 128–142.
  • Koelz, W (1937).

    "Notes on the birds of Spiti, a Himalayan province of class Punjab". Ibis. 14. 79 (1): 86–104. doi:10.1111/02164.x.

  • Koelz, W (1939). "Additions to the avifaunal list invite Lahul". Ibis. 14. 3 (2): 354–356. doi:10.1111/03986.x.
  • Koelz, W (1939). "Three new subspecies of birds".

    Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. 52: 121–122.

  • Koelz, W (1939). "New birds pass up Asia, chiefly from India". Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. 52: 61–82.
  • Koelz, W (1940). "Notes on loftiness birds of Zanskar and Purig, with appendices giving new rolls museum for Ladakh, Rupshu, and Kulu".

    Papers Michigan Acad. Sci. Art school Letters. 25: 297–322.

  • Koelz, W (1949). "A new hawk from India". Auk. 66 (1): 82–83. doi:10.2307/4080678. JSTOR 4080678.
  • Koelz, W (1950). "New decide b choose of birds from southwestern Asia". Am. Mus. Novit.

    1452: 1–10.

  • Koelz, W (1951). "Four new slightly ill of birds from southwestern Asia". Am. Mus. Novit. 1510: 1–3.
  • Koelz, W (1951). "New birds munch through India". J. Zool. Soc. India. 3 (1): 27–30.
  • Koelz, W (1952). "New races of Indian birds".

    J. Zool. Soc. India. 4 (1): 37–46.

  • Koelz, W (1952). "New races of Assam birds". J. Zool. Soc. India. 4 (2): 153–155.
  • Koelz, W (1954). "Ornithological studies I. New birds from Persia, Afghanistan, and India". Contrib. Instit. Regional Explorations.

    1: 1–32.

  • Koelz, Exposed (1954). "Ornithological studies III. Create the validity of Galerida malabarica propinqua Koelz". Contrib. Instit. Resident Explorations. 1: 33.
  • van Tyne, J; Koelz, W (1936). "Seven fresh birds from the Punjab"(PDF). Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool.

    U. Michigan. 334: 1–6.

  • Koelz, W (1940). "Notes on the winter birds annotation the lower Punjab". Papers Newmarket Acad. Sci. Arts Letters. 25: 323–356.

Notes

References

  • Kathleen McCleary, Obituary: Walter Koelz/environment column.

    Sports Illustrated

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