STARKS, Edwin Chapin

Edwn Chapin Starks

STARKS, Edwin Chapin (1867-1932), Wisconsin-born, he entered Stanford University in 1893 where he majored in biology and became an ichthyologist. During his career Starks worked as biologist for the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey (1897-1899); curator of the Museum and Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Washington (1899-1901); Curator of Zoology, Stanford University, and Assistant professor of Zoology. He became emeritus the year of his death in 1932.

In 1900 Starks, on behalf of California Academy of Sciences, was appointed to the special commission to investigate the matter of killing sea lions on the California Channel Islands and elsewhere. Also on the commission were R. E. Snodgrass, named by the California Fish and Game Commission, and Cloudsley Rutter, chairman.

Starks collected a fox at Scorpion Harbor, Santa Cruz Island on July 16, 1901. On July 24, 1901 he collected a few marine mammals on the island. His collections went to the California Academy of Sciences. Starks authored more than eighty scientific papers, nearly a third of them devoted to the osteology of fishes.

Starks collected on:

• AÑO NUEVO ISLAND (1901)
• SANTA CRUZ ISLAND (1901)

• 1918. Starks, E. C. The Sea Lion of California American Museum Journal 18(3):226-237, March 1918

AÑO NUEVO ISLAND

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
Año Nuevo Island	E. C. Starks	CAS	August 29, 1901	CAS-20699	Eumetopias jubatus	Mammals
Año Nuevo Island	E. C. Starks	CAS	August 29, 1901	CAS-20700	Eumetopias jubatus	Mammals

SANTA CRUZ ISLAND

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
Santa Cruz Island	E. C. Starks	CAS	July 16, 1901	CAS-20582	Urocyon littoralis santacruzae	Mammals
Santa Cruz Island	E. C. Starks	CAS	July 16, 1901	CAS-20583	Urocyon littoralis santacruzae	Mammals
Santa Cruz Island	E. C. Starks	CAS	July 24, 1901	CAS-24074	Zalophus californianus californianus	Mammals
Santa Cruz Island	E. C. Starks	CAS	July 24, 1901	CAS-20697	Zalophus californianus californianus	Mammals