Henry Weed Fowler (March 23, 1878 – June 21, 1965) was an American zoologist born in

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, Pennsylvania. He studied at

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under David Starr Jordan. He joined the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and worked as an assistant from 1903 to 1922, associate curator of vertebrates from 1922 to 1934, curator of fish and reptiles from 1934 to 1940 and curator of fish from 1940 to 1965. He published material on numerous topics including crustaceans, birds, reptiles and amphibians, but his most important work was on fish. In 1927 he co-founded the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and acted as treasurer until the end of 1927. In 1934 he went to Cuba, alongside Charles Cadwalader (president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), at the invitation of

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to study billfishes, he stayed with Hemingway for six weeks and the three men developed a friendship which continued after this trip and Hemingway sent

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s to, and corresponded with, both Fowler and Cadwalader afterwards. Fowler named the

spinycheek scorpionfish The spinycheek scorpionfish (''Neomerinthe hemingwayi''), also known as Hemingway's scorpionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy ...

(''Neomerithe hemingwayi'') in honor of the author. Hemingway learnt a lot about marine life from his two guests, much of which he was said to have used in '' The Old Man and the Sea''. In 1936-1937 he took part in an expedition to

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. He died in

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Publications

*The Fishes of Oceania (1928-1974) *A study of the fishes of the southern Piedmont and coastal plain (1945) *The fishes of the groups Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Isospondyli, and Ostarophysi icobtained by the United States Bureau of fisheries steamer "Albatross" in 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine islands and adjacent seas (1941) *The fishes of the families Pomacentridae, Labridae, and Callyodontidae, collected by the United States Bureau of fisheries steamer "Albatross", chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters (1928) *The fishes of the families Amiidae, Chandidae, Duleidae, and Serranidae : obtained by the United States Bureau of fisheries steamer "Albatross" in 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine islands and adjacent seas (1930) *The fishes of the families Pseudochromidae, Lobotidae, Pempheridae, Priacanthidae, Lutjanidae, Pomadasyidae, and Teraponidae, collected by the United States Bureau of fisheries steamer "Albatross," chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters (1931) *The fishes of the families Banjosidae, Lethrinidae, Sparidae, Girellidae, Kyphosidae, Oplegnathidae, Gerridae, Mullidae, Emmelichthyidae, Sciaenidae, Sillaginidae, Arripidae, and Enoplosidae : collected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer "Albatross," chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters (1933) *The fishes of the series Capriformes, Ephippiformes, and Squamipennes, collected by the United States Bureau of fisheries steamer "Albatross", chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters (1929-1962) *The fishes of the George Vanderbilt south Pacific expedition, 1937 (1938) *Archaeological fishbones collected by E.W. Gifford in Fiji (1955) *Fishes of the Red Sea and southern Arabia (1956) *Descriptions and figures of new fishes obtained in Philippine seas and adjacent waters by the United States Bureau of fisheries steamer "Albatross," (1943) *Fishes of Fiji (1959) *Fishes of Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tahiti (1925) *Fishes of the tropical central Pacific (1927) *A description of the fossil fish remains of the Cretaceous, Eocene and Miocene formations of New Jersey (1911) *The marine fishes of West Africa : based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915 (1936) *Fishes of Hawaii, Johnston Islands, and Wake Island (1925) *The fishes of New Jersey (1906) *Fishes of Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tahiti (1925-1976)https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80100299/

Taxa named in his honor

*The catfish ''

Harttia fowleri ''Harttia fowleri'' is a species of armored catfish that inhabits the Oyapock River basin of Brazil and French Guiana. ''C. fowleri'' is a poorly known species that was caught in rapids along with '' Metaloricaria paucidens''. This species gr ...

'' ( Pellegrin, 1908)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fowler, Henry Weed 1878 births 1965 deaths American ichthyologists American zoologists

Publications

Taxa named in his honor

See also

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