Austin L. Rand
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Austin Loomer Rand (16 December 1905 - 6 November 1982) was a Canadian zoologist.
He was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia in 1905 and grew up in nearby Wolfville. He received a Bachelor of Science from Acadia University.
In 1929, while still a graduate student at Cornell University, he travelled on an expedition to Madagascar as collector of birds. Rand published the results as his thesis for his Ph.D.. It was on this expedition that he met Richard Archbold, zoologist and philanthropist, with whom he became a lifelong friend. Archbold also financed a series of expeditions to New Guinea in the 1930s in which Rand participated.
In 1942, Rand became assistant zoologist at the National Museum of Canada, now the Canadian Museum of Nature, where he worked with ornithologist Percy A. Taverner and mammologist Rudolph Martin Anderson. From 1947-1955, he was curator of birds at the Field Museum in Chicago and was chief Curator of Zoology there from 1955 to 1970.
He was a frequent contributor to The Auk, a publication of the American Ornithologists' Union.
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