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He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 1877, son of the newspaper executive Charles Beebe.
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entomologist explorer naturalist ornithologist author marine biologist
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 1877, son of the newspaper executive Charles Beebe.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1898, and in 1899 became curator of birds at the New York Zoological Society (Bronx Park Zoo).
He originated the collection of living birds at the zoo and developed it into one of the finest in the world. In 1916 he founded a research station in British Guiana and was made director of the Tropical Research Department of the Society. He established several other stations, in Venezuela, Bermuda, Trinidad, and elsewhere. Beebe's explorations took him to Nova Scotia, Florida, Mexico, the Galápagos Islands, Borneo, China, Japan, and the Himalayas. Beebe was also noted for his descents into the sea, starting in 1930, in his specially constructed "bathysphere, " a forerunner of the modern bathyscaphe, from which he made detailed observations of deep-water life. Among his 300 scientific and popular articles and books are Beneath Tropic Seas (1928), Half Mile Down (1934), High Jungle (1949), and Adventures with Beebe (1955). In 1952 Beebe became director emeritus of the Zoological Society and until his death spent most of his time at the Trinidad research station. He died on June 4, 1962, in Trinidad.
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Beebe described his religious beliefs as a combination of Presbyterianism and Buddhism. His religion was largely the result of seeking to combine his sense of awe and wonder at the natural world with a scientific understanding of its workings.
He was highly critical of efforts to use science to justify political ideologies, such as socialism or the belief that women were inferior to men.
William Beebe was more famous in the United States than any other American naturalist prior to the days of television. As a scientific writer who participated in both the popular and academic worlds, he occupied a similar role to the role later occupied by Stephen Jay Gould. Although he was not physically handsome in the traditional sense, he tended to dominate every social and professional situation due to his enthusiasm, intelligence and charisma.
On August 6, 1902, Beebe was married to Mary Blair Rice, better known by her pen name Blair Niles. Blair subsequently accompanied Beebe on several of his expeditions, and as a writer herself, frequently assisted Beebe with his own writing. Beebe and Blair regarded their honeymoon, another trip to Nova Scotia, as a further opportunity for collecting.
In January 1913, Blair left Beebe for Reno with the intention of divorcing him, since at this time in history it was easier to obtain a divorce in Reno than in most other areas of the United States. The divorce was granted on August 29, 1913, after Blair had spent the minimum requirement of six months as a resident in Reno.
Beebe developed a close friendship with the American romance novelist Elswyth Thane, who had met Beebe in 1925. Beebe and Elswyth were married on September 22, 1927, when Beebe was 50.