Josselyn Van Tyne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American ornithologist and museum curator
Date of Birth: 11-May-1902
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 30-Jan-1957
Profession: ornithologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Josselyn Van Tyne
- Josselyn Van Tyne (11 May 1902, Philadelphia – 30 January 1957, Ann Arbor) was an American ornithologist and museum curator of birds.A son of the historian Claude H.
- Van Tyne, Josselyn Van Tyne received his A.B.
- from Harvard University in 1925 and his Ph.D.
- in 1928 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
- He became Assistant Curator of Birds at the U.
- of Michigan's Museum of Zoology and in 1931 Curator of Birds, a position he held until his death; his successor as the Museum's Curator of Birds was Harrison B.
- Tordoff.
- In 1930 Van Tyne became an instructor in the U.
- of Michigan's Department of Zoology, then assistant professor, associate professor, and finally professor in 1953. ...
- Most of his time was spent inside his office and the museum, but every year he aimed to get out at least once on an extended field trip.
- Over the years his travels carried him to Indo-China (the Kelley-Roosevelt expedition of 1928–1929), the Panama Canal Zone, Guatemala, British Honduras, Yucatan, the Bahamas, Canadian Arctic, Europe, the Chisos Mountains of Texas, and nearly every part of Michigan.
- He was a productive collector, and thousands of near-perfect bird skins, many of them preserved under difficult tropical conditions, give evidence of his skill as a preparator. Van Tyne was editor of the Wilson Bulletin from 1939 to 1948 and the president of the Wilson Ornithological Society from 1935 to 1937.
- In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union and served as the Union's President from 1950 to 1953.In 1933 he married Helen Belfield Bates (1896–1980), a daughter of Henry Moore Bates.
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