BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
to Kansas and was an assistant in the University Museum at LawTence, from 1905- 
1910 ; was an assistant in the Colorado Museum of Natural History in 1909. Took 
the A.B. degree at University of Kansas in 1912 ; M.S. degree in 1916 and Ph.D. in 
1920, both at George Washington University. His studies at the University of Kansas 
were much interrupted from lack of funds, to supply which he drifted from place to 
place in the west, taking odd jobs (freight agent, station agent, express agent, store¬ 
keeper in mining camps, driller, dynamite “ shooter,” etc.) until he had accumulated 
enough to resume his university work. Employed by Biological Survey in 1910, 
and regularly since 1912. Has since visited Alaska, Porto Rico, Argentina, Hawaii, 
Wake Island, and many parts of the western United States on various projects. At 
present stationed in Washington. Is working on systematic ornithology, bird rmatomy, 
and fossil birds chiefly. In November 1924 he was appointed Superintendent of the 
National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, to succeed the late Ned Hollister, 
one of the leading American Ornithologists, now r Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, and a new Superintendent of the Park will be appointed. Supervisor of 
the Zoological Park, Bureau of American Ethnology, etc., he has only one more 
step to go (Secretary of the Smithsonian) to gain the highest scientific honour in America. 
His new office is next door to that of the Division of Birds so he will be in close touch 
with the bird library and birds, 220,000 skins. He is officially “ Custodian ” of the 
skeleton and alcoholic collection. 
Wetmore and Townsend, Charles Haskins. Born 1859. 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Yol. LXIII., No. 4, Aug. 1919. 
Discussed the genus Scceophcethon . 
Wheelwright, Horace William. —An Old Bushman. Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist, 
8vo, London, (before Feb. 12th) 1861. 
In the future may become a “ Classic.” 
Pogophorus (misspelling of Pezoporus ), Leipoa penicillata. 
White, Henry Luke. —Born 1861. At present the most influential factor in the scientific 
study of Australian Birds and their Eggs, employing collectors to investigate the bird 
life of hitherto unworked parts, the results being published in the Emu, of which Journal 
he is the most important patron. Has presented coHections and books to the Royal 
Australasian Ornithologists’ Union which will later prove invaluable to Australian 
students. 
Has described a few birds in the Emu as foUows : Entomophila borealis (Vol. XIII.), 
Malurus lamberti dawsonianus (Vol. XVI.), Ptilotis albilineata (Vol. XVI.), Acanthiza 
nana dawsoniana (Vol. XVIII.), Atrichornis rufescens jacksoni (Vol. XIX.), Psephotus 
narethce (Vol. XXX.), Acanthiza pusilla nullarborensis (Vol. XXI.), Gymnorhina tibicen 
eylandtensis (Vol. XXI.). 
White, Samuel.— Born 1835. Died 1880. Greatest field ornithologist in Australia of the 
past generation. Fortunately there is a sketch of the “ Life of Samuel White, 
Ornithologist, Soldier, Sailor and Explorer ” by his son, S. A. White, recently published 
in the South Australian Ornithologist, Vol. I., part 3 and succeeding numbers, July 1914 
onwards, and in book form from Adelaide, 1920. 
He sent his specimens to Gould, who gave him credit for the collection of the types 
of Arlamus melanops and Malurus callavmts, and mentioned him in connection with 
Pardcdolus rtibricatus, Hieracidea orientalis, Elanus scriptus , Eurostopodus guttatus , 
Epthianura albifrons , E. aurifrons , E. tricolor , Dicceum hirundinaceum , etc. . 
He collected Psephotus xanthorrhous at Cooper’s Creek on Oct. 9th, 1863, which was 
named pallescens by Salvadori many years afterward. 
White, Samuel Albert (Captain). —Son of the preceding. Bom Dec. 20th, 1870. I have 
given a Memoir and Portrait in the Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pp. 162 et seq., . 
The most enthusiastic field ornithologist in Australia of the present generation. as 
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