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Earl S. Herald

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162:, and in these roles he was able to secure funding to support the transfer of the Vanderbilt Foundation's collection of fishes from Stanford University to the academy, which also allowed for extensive renovations of the Department of Ichthyology. He was then involved in the transfer of Stanford University's collection of fishes and the 178:, and his initial dissertation was on the taxonomy of the American pipefishes. He was also interested in freshwater dolphins and travelled to the river systems which hold these species, he also travelled widely in his ichthyological research. In all he published 93 papers, many of which were on the systematics and biology of the 140:, which was originally broadcast locally in the San Francisco Bay area but which was eventually shown all over the world. It contained discussions of science topics with noted scientists as well as a popular segment involving unpredictable animals. In one especially notable sequence Herald demonstrated the ability of archer fish 128:
Herald was appointed as Curator of Aquatic Biology at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco on 2 August 1948. He expanded the Herpetological Exhibit at the Aquarium from a single boa to one of the world's leading exhibits of reptiles and amphibians. He also secured major funding for refurbishment
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and renewal of the Aquarium in the form of a San Francisco Municipal bond. In addition, he conceived of a doughnut-shaped exhibit which would allow for the display of fast swimming pelagic species, for which he also secured major funding.
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to shoot food from the walls of their aquarium having spent the previous weeks training the fish. Herald's interest in public education about science led him to propose a "San Francisco Bay floating laboratory" on a retired, refurbished
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during the Second World War and rose to the rank of captain in the Sanitary Corps. In 1946 he was an ichthyological investigator on the effects of the atomic bomb tests at
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which had been reported by other divers in that area. He was survived by his wife Olivia and their three children, Bruce, Douglas and Katherine.
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In addition to his work in expanding and improving the Steinhart Aquarium he was also the presenter of the television show
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Herald was a Curator of the Department of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences, as well as a Trustee of the
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Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae.
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A key to the pipefishes of the Pacific American coasts with descriptions of new genera and species
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Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1–685, Pls. 1-74. with
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The following is an incomplete list of publications authored by Earl Stannard Herald:
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George S. Myers; W.I. Follett; William A. Gosline (1974). "Earl Stannard Herald".
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Studies on the classification and interrelationships of the American pipefishes
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Studies on the Atlantic American pipefishes, with descriptions of new species.
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Living Fishes of the World Hardcover – 1 Oct 1975 by Earl S. Herald (author)
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Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th ser., v. 29, no. 13
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in 1943. This selection of institutions allowed Herald to be schooled in
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From pipefish to seahorse; a study of phylogenetic relationships.
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off Cabo San Lucas in Baja California. He was searching for the
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were named in his honour. Additionally, the yellow angelfish (
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Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 July 2020).
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A field guide to Pacific Coast fishes : North America
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had on reef fishes. In 1947-48 he was appointed to the
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Herald was primarily interested in fishes, especially
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in 1937, he then completed his master's degree at the
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Steinhart Aquarium and California Academy of Sciences
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He was born in 390: 388: 386: 384: 382: 380: 378: 374: 353:, Houghton Mifflin, Boston part of the 282:University of Southern California Press 289:Dissertation Ph.D. Stanford University 420: 418: 255:Herald died on 16 January 1973 while 82:University of California, Los Angeles 7: 541:"Aquarium's Dr. Herald Is Drowned", 86:University of California, Berkeley 25: 621:20th-century American zoologists 118:U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 138:California Academy of Sciences 88:in 1939 and then his Ph.D. at 72:, in a scuba diving accident. 1: 160:George Vanderbilt Foundation 153:California State University 662: 636:Stanford University alumni 556:"au:Herald, Earl Stannard" 312:Living Fishes of the World 192:Living Fishes of the World 76:Education and early career 264:Holocanthus clarionensis 198:Taxon named in his honor 166:Library to the academy. 646:Scientists from Arizona 606:American ichthyologists 484:R.A. Fritzsche (1980). 333:Fishes of North America 251:Death and personal life 238:Taxon described by him 232:Leonard Peter Schultz 58:television programme 543:Oakland (CA) Tribune 451:J.R. Paxton (1975). 355:Peterson Field Guide 351:William N. Eschmeyer 335:Doubleday, New York 314:Doubleday, New York 28:Earl Stannard Herald 18:Earl Stannard Herald 459:Maroubra perserrata 217:Cosmocampus heraldi 188:Charles Eric Dawson 184:John Ernest Randall 90:Stanford University 223:Centropyge heraldi 164:David Starr Jordan 143:Toxotes jaculatrix 110:United States Army 98:Loye Holmes Miller 44:Steinhart Aquarium 455:Heraldia nocturna 155:, San Francisco. 134:Science in Action 61:Science in Action 16:(Redirected from 653: 590: 589: 574: 568: 567: 565: 563: 552: 546: 539: 533: 532: 530: 528: 512: 506: 505: 503: 501: 481: 475: 474: 448: 442: 441: 439: 437: 422: 413: 412: 392: 261:golden angelfish 228:Loren Paul Woods 214:and the species 108:. 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Index

Earl Stannard Herald
zoologist
Ichthyologist
Phoenix, Arizona
Steinhart Aquarium
San Francisco
California
popular science
Science in Action
Cabo San Lucas
Baja California
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
zoology
Loye Holmes Miller
Joseph Grinnell
George S. Myers
United States Army
Bikini Atoll
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
California Academy of Sciences
Toxotes jaculatrix
PT boat
California State University
George Vanderbilt Foundation
David Starr Jordan
pipefishes
Syngnathidae
John Ernest Randall

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