Clement Samuel Brimley (18 December 1863 – 23 July 1946) was a self-trained

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

who worked at the

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. His brother, H.H. Brimley, was a zoologist and long-time director of the same museum. Both Brimley brothers are buried at

Historic Oakwood Cemetery Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital of North Carolina, near the North Carolina State Capitol in the city's Historic Oakwood neighborhood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains two special ar ...

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. Brimley's chorus frog and the firefly '' Photinus brimleyi'' were named for C.S. Brimley.

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Collecting Nature: The Beginning of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
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*University of Iowa, Museum of Natural History

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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Sciences Collection
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Historic Oakwood Cemetery
��grave listings, accessed 27 June 2008 1863 births 1946 deaths Burials at Historic Oakwood Cemetery English emigrants to the United States {{UK-zoologist-stub