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H. Harold Shamel
Henry Harold Shamel (26 June 1885–1963) was an American mammalogist. George Henry Hamilton Tate named a species of bat after him, Shamel's horseshoe bat (''Rhinolophus shameli''). Life Shamel was born 26 June 1885 in Ellsworth County, Kansas. He was the sixth of eight children. His parents were Emily Almira Boileau and Joel Henry Shamel. He was a schoolteacher before finding employment as a stenographer at St. John Mills in 1916. In 1915, he took an examination to apply for a civil service position, receiving his assignment at the end of 1916. He started working for the National Museum of Natural History beginning in 1917. On 3 September 1937, Shamel was promoted to senior scientific aide in the National Museum's division of mammals. Shamel retired from the National Museum in 1947 due to poor health. In his later life, he wrote a genealogical history of the Gabriel family, published in 1960. He also authored ''Seeds of Time, A Story of the Ozarks'', which was about his c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Hamilton Tate
George Henry Hamilton Tate (April 30, 1894 – December 24, 1953) was a British-born American zoologist and botanist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In his lifetime he wrote several books on subjects such as the South American mouse opossums and the mammals of the Pacific and East Asia. Biography He was born in London on April 30, 1894. He had a brother, Geoffrey Tate. In 1912 he migrated from Britain to New York City with his family. From 1912 to 1914 he worked as telegraph operator on Long Island. He then joined the British Army to fight in World War I. At the end of the war, he studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England without taking a degree. He then migrated back to the United States and became a field assistant in mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1927 he completed his B.S. at Columbia University in Manhattan, and became a United States citizen. In Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamel's Horseshoe Bat
Shamel's horseshoe bat (''Rhinolophus shameli'') is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The eponym for the species name "''shameli''" was American mammalogist H. Harold Shamel Henry Harold Shamel (26 June 1885–1963) was an American mammalogist. George Henry Hamilton Tate named a species of bat after him, Shamel's horseshoe bat (''Rhinolophus shameli''). Life Shamel was born 26 June 1885 in Ellsworth County, Kan .... References Rhinolophidae Mammals described in 1843 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by George Henry Hamilton Tate Bats of Southeast Asia {{Rhinolophidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellsworth County, Kansas
Ellsworth County (county code EW) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 6,376. Its county seat and most populous city is Ellsworth. History Early history From the 16th century to 18th century, the Kingdom of France claimed ownership of large parts of North America both east and west of the Mississippi River. In 1762, after losing the French and Indian War to Great Britain, France secretly ceded New France to Spain, per the Treaty of Fontainebleau. In 1763 France ceded its territories east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain. It regained the western territory under Napoleon, who sold it in 1803 to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. He had decided to get rid of the New World territories after failing to regain control of Saint-Domingue, where a slave rebellion had toppled colonial control. In 1804 Haiti declared independence as the second republic of the Western Hemisphere. The Plains Indians re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Federal Civil Service
The United States federal civil service is the civilian workforce (i.e., non-elected and non-military public sector employees) of the United States federal government's departments and agencies. The federal civil service was established in 1871 (). U.S. state and local government entities often have comparable civil service systems that are modeled on the national system, in varying degrees. The U.S. civil service is managed by the Office of Personnel Management, which reported approximately 2.79 million civil servants employed by the federal government, including employees in the departments and agencies run by any of the three branches of government (the executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch), including over 600,000 employees in the U.S. Postal Service. Types of employees There are three categories of U.S. federal employees: * The ''competitive service'' includes the majority of civil service positions, meaning employees are selected based on merit after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Museum Of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. In 2021, with 7.1 million visitors, it was the eighteenth most visited museum in the world and the second most visited natural history museum in the world after the Natural History Museum in London."The World's most popular museums", CNN.com, 22 June 2017. Opened in 1910, the museum on the National Mall was one of the first Smithsonian buildings constructed exclusively to hold the national collections and research facilities. The main building has an overall area of with of exhibition and public space and houses over 1,000 employees. The museum's collections contain over 145 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, the largest natural history collection in the world. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chacoan Pygmy Opossum
The Chacoan pygmy opossum (''Chacodelphys formosa'') is a recently described genus and species of didelphimorph marsupial. The only species in ''Chacodelphys'', ''C. formosa'', was known until 2004 from only one specimen collected in 1920 in the Chaco of Formosa Province, Argentina. The species is gaining popularity as a pocket pet. Description The Chacoan pygmy opossum is the smallest known species of didelphid. It has a head-body length of 68 mm, a tail of 55 mm and a hind foot of 11. It differs from the other " marmosine" genera (''Marmosa'', '' Monodelphis'', '' Thylamys'', ''Tlacuatzin'', '' Gracilinanus'', '' Marmosops'', ''Lestodelphys'') in having a long third manual digit, no distinctly tricolored pelage, a long fourth pedal digit, and a tail shorter than head-body. No other marmosine genera has this combination of characters. Taxonomic history ''C. formosa'' was originally described as ''Marmosa muscula'' Shamel Shamel is a Goan percussion instrument. Ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peleng Leaf-nosed Bat
The Peleng leaf-nosed bat (''Hipposideros pelingensis'') is a species of bat native to Sulawesi and other adjacent Indonesian islands. It has been recorded in Marus National Park and Lambu Sango National Reserve. Taxonomy and etymology It was described as a new species in 1940 by mammalogist H. Harold Shamel. The holotype had been collected in 1918 by H. C. Raven. Its species name "''pelingensis''" is Latin for "belonging to Peling." Shamel was using an incorrect alternate spelling of the island of Peleng, which is where the holotype was collected. The Principle of Priority, which is a rule of nomenclature, means that Shamel's species name will be retained as he wrote it, though the common name can change to reflect the accurate spelling. At times in the past, it has been considered a subspecies of the fierce roundleaf bat, ''Hipposideros dinops''. Habitat and ecology This bat roosts in karsts and caves in large groups ranging from hundreds to thousands of individuals. Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myotis Flavus
Hodgson's bat (''Myotis formosus''), also called the copper-winged bat or black-and-orange myotis, is a species of vesper bat in the genus ''Myotis'', the mouse-eared bats. Favouring mountain forests, it is found throughout Central, Southeast, and East Asia, from Afghanistan to Taiwan. It is about long and is distinguished from most other species of bat in this range by its yellowish colouration. Taxonomy Previously, Hodgson's bat was thought to be a single wide-ranging species with a distribution from Central Asia east to Taiwan, north to Korea, and south to Indonesia. However, a 2014 morphological study found significant divergence in morphology between different populations of the species, and thus split it into several distinct species: Hodgson's bat (''M. formosus sensu stricto'', ranging from Central Asia east to Taiwan), the reddish-black myotis (''M. rufoniger'', ranging from Laos and Vietnam north to Korea and Tsushima Island, and also east to Taiwan), the orange- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogotá Yellow-shouldered Bat
The Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat (''Sturnira bogotensis'') is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela at altitudes from 300 m to above 2000 m, particularly in cloud forest. The species is primarily frugivorous; it may also consume nectar and pollen. Taxonomy The Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat was first described in 1927 by American mammalogist H. Harold Shamel, who named it as a subspecies of the Little yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira lilium bogotensis''. The holotype had been collected in Bogotá, Colombia. Within its genus, it forms a clade (shares a common ancestor) with the following species: the hairy yellow-shouldered bat (''S. erythromos''), '' S. hondurensis'', '' S. koopmanhilli'', the highland yellow-shouldered bat (''S. ludovici''), the greater yellow-shouldered bat (''S. magna''), the Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat (''S. mordax''), Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat (''S. oporaphilum''), '' S. per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 Births
Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant, on Mary Gartside. * January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan – Battle of Abu Klea: British troops defeat Mahdist forces. * January 20 – American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster. * January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite. * January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed. * February 5 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State, as a personal possession. * February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii. * February 16 – Charles Dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A January 1963 lunar eclipse, total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the January 1963 lunar eclipse, penumbral lunar eclipse and the Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963, annular solar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
