Arthur Cleveland Bent
portrait of Arthur Bent
Born(1866-11-25)November 25, 1866
DiedDecember 30, 1954(1954-12-30) (aged 88)
Resting placeMount Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, MA
41°53′39″N 71°06′03″W / 41.89415°N 71.10091°W / 41.89415; -71.10091
Alma materHarvard College
Known forOrnithology
Parents
  • William Henry Bent
  • Harriet Fellowes Hendee
AwardsJohn Burroughs Medal (1940)
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1949)

Arthur Cleveland Bent (November 25, 1866 – December 30, 1954) was an American ornithologist. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work, Life Histories of North American Birds, published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously.[1]

Bent was brought up in Taunton, Massachusetts, where he became interested in birds as a child. He was later successful in business and traveled throughout North America, acquiring an extensive knowledge of its avifauna. From 1901 he was contributing papers to The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists' Union.[1]

Bent with William Brewster and others of the Nuttall Club

Following a request from the Smithsonian Institution in 1910, Bent started work on the project that would dominate the rest of his life. Using his own experiences, the published literature, and contributions from hundreds of others, he put together what was at the time by far the most comprehensive repository of knowledge about the biology of the birds of North America. His accounts were published progressively in the United States National Museum Bulletin (NMB),[1] and later republished by Dover.

In 1940 Bent was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished book-length nature writing.[1] He was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1949 .[2]

Life Histories – publication history

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Familiar Birds: About the work of Arthur Cleveland Bent
  2. ↑ "Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  3. ↑ Familiar Birds: Appendix
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