{"id":1254,"date":"2012-10-22T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T18:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2018-01-25T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:44:13","slug":"dowling-herndon-glenn-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"DOWLING, HERNDON GLENN, 1921-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biologist, University professor, editor, museum curator. Born&#8211; April 2, 1921, Cullman. Parents&#8211;Herndon and Ada Camp Dowling. Married Margaret Purcell, 1943 (divorced, 1962); children&#8211;four.\u00a0 Married Madlyn O&#8217;Neill, 1968 (died 2000); married Janann Jenner, 2001. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1942; University of Florida, M.S., 1948; University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1951. Taught at the University of Florida, 1947-1948; Haverford College, 1951-1952; University of Arkansas, 1952-1959; New York University, 1973. Served as museum assistant at the University of Michigan, 1948-1951; assistant curator then curator of reptiles at New York Zoological Park, 1959-1967; director, Herpilology Information System at the American Museum of Natural History, 1968-1973; adjunct professor at Rhode Island University, 1964; adjunct professor at New York University, 1965-1973. Edited the Herpetological Review. 1969-1973; editor of amphibian and reptile section of Biological Abstracts, 1968-1973; general editor of the Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles, 1966-1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Men and Women of Science, 1982; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Bibliography on Albinism in Amphibians and Reptiles, 1849-1972. New York; Herpetological Information Search Systems, American Museum of Natural History, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>A Bibliography on the Chromosomes of the Amphibians and Reptiles, 1891-1971. New York; Herpetological Information Search Systems, American Museum of Natural History, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>A Bibliography on the Green Turtle, Chelonia Mydas, 1743-1971. New York; Herpetological Information Search Systems, American Museum of Natural History, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>A Bibliography on the Reproductive System of Reptiles, 1822-1972; a Bibliographic Service. New York; Herpetological Information Search Systems, American Museum of Natural History, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>A Review of the Amphibians and Reptiles in Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark.; University of Arkansas, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>A Taxonomic Study of the Ratsnakes, Genus Elaphe Fitzinger, vol. II. Ann Arbor, Mich.; University of Michigan Press, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>A Taxonomic Study of the Ratsnakes, Genus Elaphe Fitzinger; vol. IV. a Checklist of the American Forms. Ann Arbor; University of Michigan Press, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>A Taxonomic Study of the Ratsnakes, Genus Elaphe Fitzinger, vol. V. (the Rosalie section). Ann Arbor; University of Michigan Press, 1952.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Systematic Herpetology; a Synopsis of Families and Higher Categories. New York; HISS Publications, 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Herdon Glenn Dowling are held as the H. G. Dowling Herpetological College at Western Connecticut State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Biologist, University professor, editor, museum curator. Born&#8211; April 2, 1921, Cullman. Parents&#8211;Herndon and Ada Camp Dowling. Married Margaret Purcell, 1943 (divorced, 1962); children&#8211;four.\u00a0 Married Madlyn O&#8217;Neill, 1968 (died 2000); married Janann Jenner, 2001. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1942; University of Florida, M.S., 1948; University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1951. 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