Subject: RE: Georg Wilhelm Steller
Date: Nov 23 16:35:16 1998
From: "Li, Kevin" - Kevin.Li at METROKC.GOV


The steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus, also called a Northern sea lion)
is also named in honor of Georg Wilhelm Steller.

Kevin Li
King County Environmental Lab
322 West Ewing St.
Seattle, WA 98119

(206) 684-2344


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> From: B&P Bell[SMTP:bellasoc at mail.isomedia.com]
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> Sent: Monday, November 23, 1998 2:58 PM
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Georg Wilhelm Steller
>
> Charles and other Tweets -
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> Georg Wilhelm Steller was a German zoologist who lived from 1709-46. He
> as a member of Vitus Bering's Arctic expedition in 1740, and was listed
> as ship's surgeon and mineralogist. The expedition explored the Alaska
> mainland. Steller is reported to have been the first European to set
> foot in Alaska. He collected birds including the jay later given his
> name, and observed the eagle also given his name. After returning to
> Kamchatka, their departure point, he died in 1742 while traveling
> overland. (source: John K. Terres, 1980, The Audubon Society
> Encyclopedia of North American Birds, p. 856.)
>
> Brian H. Bell
> Woodinville Wa
> bellasoc at isomedia.com
>