Joseph Beal Steere

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Joseph Beal Steere (9 February 1842 - 7 December 1940) was an American ornithologist.

Steere was born in Rollin, Michigan. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1868 and a B. of Law in 1870. From 1870-1873 he travelled in South America, China and Taiwan. He went on another scientific expedition to the Philippines and the Moluccas from 1874-1875. He returned to Michigan to teach Zoology and was a professor of Zoology there from 1876-1893.

He married Helen Buzzard on 30 September 1879.

He took one final excursion in 1901, leading a group of students to the Amazon to collect specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.

Steere described a number of new birds. He is commemorated in the names of a number of birds, including Steere's Liocichla Liochicla steerii, Wattled Broadbill Eurylaimus steerii, Black-hooded Coucal Centropus steerii and Azure-breasted Pitta Pitta steerii.

[edit] Publications

• Steere, J. B., 1903. Narrative of a visit to indian tribes of the Purus river, Brazil. A. Rept. U. S. natl Mus., Washington, D. C. 1903: 359-393.
• Steere, J. B., 1927. The archeology of the Amazon. Univ. Michigan off. Publs 29 (9, Pt. 2): 20-26.
• Steere, J. B., 1949. Tribos do Purus. Sociologia, São Paulo 11 (2): 64-78, 212-222.

[edit] References

• Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
• Reed University
• Hubbell, T. H., [1964]. The University of Michigan Beal-Steere Expedition, 1870-1875. Itinerary and chronology of Joseph Beal Steere's first expedition. [www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/birds/collcom.html].
• Marquis, A. N., ed., 1918. Who's who in America. A biographical dictionary of living men and women of the United States. Vol. 10. A. N. Marquis and Co., Chicago. p.2574.