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<span style="color:#006400">'''BURT, William Henry '''</span> (1903-1987) a native Kansan, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Kansas and then proceeded to complete a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1930. After gaining additional experience in field research and museum methods at the California Institute of Technology, he went to Michigan in 1935 as Assistant Curator of Mammals and Instructor in Zoology. He was promoted to Curator in 1938 and Professor of Zoology in 1949.
<span style="color:#006400">'''BURT, William Henry '''</span> (1903-1987) a native Kansan, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Kansas and then proceeded to complete a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1930. After gaining additional experience in field research and museum methods at the California Institute of Technology, he went to Michigan in 1935 as Assistant Curator of Mammals and Instructor in Zoology. He was promoted to Curator in 1938 and Professor of Zoology in 1949.

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William Henry Burt (1903-1987)

BURT, William Henry (1903-1987) a native Kansan, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Kansas and then proceeded to complete a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1930. After gaining additional experience in field research and museum methods at the California Institute of Technology, he went to Michigan in 1935 as Assistant Curator of Mammals and Instructor in Zoology. He was promoted to Curator in 1938 and Professor of Zoology in 1949.

Professor Burt distinguished himself at The University of Michigan as an authority on the systematics, distribution, and ecology of mammals and he contributed significantly to the establishment of Ann Arbor as a national center of professional training in mammalogy. In addition to his competence as a curator in his own field, he also edited the Museum of Zoology's publication series and was a respected voice on the unit's Executive Committee. He was an enthusiastic teacher of undergraduate students in the Department of Zoology as well as an effective graduate advisor. His authoritative volumes The Mammals of Michigan and The Mammals of the Great Lakes Region were supplemented by more than 100 papers published in technical journals and by a popular member of the Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide Series, Field Guide to the Mammals. Professor Burt edited the Journal of Mammalogy and served for two terms as President of the American Society of Mammalogists. Professor Burt interacted constructively not only with professional colleagues but also with conservationists and amateur naturalists.

Following his retirement from The University of Michigan in 1969, Professor Burt moved to Boulder, where he maintained a link with his field by serving as a visiting professor of biology and visiting curator of mammals in the University of Colorado. His wife and he were childless. He was survived by a sister, Gladys Anderson of Kansas.

William Henry Burt died on December 4, 1987, in Boulder, Colorado. He was 84. His wife, the former Leona Susan Galutia, preceded him in death.


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Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
Isla San Martin W. H. Burt UMMZ April 10, 1938 Peromyscus maniculatus exiguus Mammals
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