Biography:

Naturalist. Born– May 3, 1872, Lake Grove, N.Y. Parents– Elbert Richard and Anne Judson (Holmes) Howell. Married– Grace Bowen Johnson, June 20, 1900. Children– Three. Education– Public schools in Brooklyn, New York. Worked as a clerk and secretary, 1889-1895. Hired as a Biologist, Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammology, U.S. Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, 1895; moved up through the ranks to the position of Senior Biologist, Division of Wildlife Research, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he was still serving at the time of his death in 1940. Led explorations in Texas and New Mexico, 1903; Texas & Louisiana, 1905-1907; Georgia & Tennessee, 1908; Alabama, 1910-1916; Florida, 1918-1939; Georgia, 1927-1933; North Carolina, 1928-1930. Author of approximately eighty major scientific papers.  Fellow of the American Ornithological Union; member of several other scientific organizations. Died July 10, 1940.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; Viola Schantz, “In Memoriam: Arthur H. Howell,” The Auk, LXXX, (1940), 290-294.

Publication(s):

Biological Survey of Alabama. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1921.

Birds of Alabama. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1924.

Birds of Arkansas. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1911.

Birds That Eat the Cotton Boll Weevil. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1906.

Destruction of the Cotton Boll Weevil by Birds in Winter. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1908.

Florida Bird Life. New York; Coward-McCann, 1932.

The Relation of Birds to the Cotton Boll Weevil. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1907.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Arthur Holmes Howell is held by the Archives of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.