Edward Alexander Preble (June 11, 1871 – October 4, 1957) was an American

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

and conservationist. Born in

Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a total population of 81, ...

, he is noted for work in studying birds and mammals of the Pacific Northwest. He also acted as an editor for nature magazines. In 1908, Preble published a report on the natural history of the

Boreal forest of Canada Canada's boreal forest is a vast region comprising about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of the 50th parallel. Other countries with boreal forest include Russia, which contains the majo ...

. This monograph was based his two expeditions, in 1901 and again in 1903–04, with the U.S. Biological Survey. In 1925, Preble became a Consulting Naturalist for ''Nature''. When he retired from government service, in 1935, he became one of the journal's Associate Editors—a position he held until his death on October 4, 1957.

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* American naturalists American mammalogists 1871 births 1957 deaths {{US-zoologist-stub