HI:
Dean Amadon has just died. Details below.

Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
ipaulsen at krl.org
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way"

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:25:37 -0600
From: Dan Brooks <dbrooks at HMNS.ORG>
Reply-To: Bulletin Board for Ornithologists working with Neotropical Birds
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To: NEOORN-L at LISTSERV.LSU.EDU
Subject: [NEOORN-L] FW: [AVECOL-L] Dean Amadon

sad news..........


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Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology
Houston Museum of Natural Science
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> ----------
> From: Paul Sweet
> Reply To: Bulletin Board for Bird Collections and Curators
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:42 PM
> To: AVECOL-L at LISTSERV.LSU.EDU
> Subject: [AVECOL-L] Dean Amadon
>
> Dear AVECOL Members
>
> Dr. Dean Amadon, Lamont Curator Emeritus in the Department of
> Ornithology, passed away this weekend at his home in Tenafly, NJ.
> We wish to express our deepest sympathy to his wife, Tavvy, and his
> daughters, grandchildren and their families.
>
> Dean joined the Museum in 1937 after graduating from Hobart
> College. Except for service in the Pacific during WWII, he remained
> at the Museum during his entire career. He received his doctorate
> at Cornell University in 1947 with a thesis on Hawaiian
> honeycreepers. Dean was appointed Assistant Curator in 1940,
> Associate Curator in 1950, and Lamont Curator in 1955. He was
> Chairman of the Department from 1957 until 1973.
>
> Dean was past president of the American Ornithologists' Union, the
> John Burroughs Memorial Association, and the Linnaean Society of
> New York; he had been a director of the Explorers Club, the
> Delaware Museum of Natural History, and the Laboratory of
> Ornithology at Cornell University. Dean was the author or co-author
> of over 400 publications, including three books. One of these,
> written with Leslie H. Brown, was the definitive treatment of the
> systematics, behavior, and natural history of his beloved birds of
> prey. A second influential book, published by the Museum, was a
> monograph with Jean Delacour on the natural history and systematics
> of Curassows and their relatives.
>
> Dean remained active at the Museum throughout his retirement and
> most recently was honored with a celebration of his 90th birthday
> this past June. Dean was always a very generous and collegial
> person; he will be deeply missed by his many friends at the Museum.
> --
> Joel Cracraft
>
>
> Paul Sweet
> Collection Manager
> Department of Ornithology
> American Museum of Natural History
> 79th Street at Central Park West
> New York, NY 10024
> USA
>
> Tel. 212 769 5780
> Fax 212 769 5759
> e-mail sweet at amnh.org
> http://research.amnh.org/ornithology/index.html
>
>