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MEARNS, Edgar Alexander (1856-1916), New York-born graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1881, Mearns was a surgeon in the medical corps of the U.S. Army for 25 years. Mearns maintained a lifelong interest in natural history and ornithology in particular.
August 22-29, 1894 he visited San Clemente Island with mammalogist Alfred Webster Anthony as a part of the International Boundary Commission. They accessed the island via the U.S. revenue cutter, Wolcott.
Specimens collected by Mearns are located in a number of institutions, including the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., American Museum of Natural History, New York, and Field Museum, Chicago. In 1909 Mearns accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on the Smithsonian African Expedition. Mearns died on November 1, 1916 at age 60 at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Mearns’ papers (1871-1916) are on deposit in the Smithsonian Institutions Archives [SIA RU007083].
» Mearns, Edgar Descriptions of two new birds from the Santa Barbara islands, southern California in Auk 15:3 (258-264) July-September 1898.
Island Collections~
San Clemente Island
8/25/1894 UC plants; NMNH plants
8/24,27,28/1894 NMNH mammals (foxes)
8/23,24,25,26,27,28/1894 NMNH birds
