Ephraim Laurence Palmer

Background

Palmer, Ephraim Laurence was born on July 8, 1888 in McGraw, New York, United States. Son of Ephraim Clark and Laura Lincoln (Darrow) Palmer.

Education

Graduate Cortland (New York) State Teacher’s College, 1908. Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1911, Master of Arts, 1913, Doctor of Philosophy, 1917.

Career

Assistant in botany, Cornell Univercity, 1910-1913. Instructor botany and elementary agriculture, 1913, assistant professor botany, 1914, professor natural science and extension Instructor, 1915-1919, Iowa State Teachers College, Goldwin Smith fellow in botany, Cornell Univercity, 1916-1917, assistant professor rural education, 1919-1922, professor, 1922-1952, emeritus professor nature, conservation education, 1952, editor Cornell Rural School Leaflet, 1919-1952. Director nature education, Nature Magazine, 1925-1959, contributing editor National History magazine, 1960-1962.

Enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve, June 6, 1918.

On staff summer school, University of California at Los Angeles, 1922, 24, Iowa Agricultural College, 1923, 33, Utah Agricultural College, 1925, 26, 27, University of Hawaii, 1931, University Washington, 1937. Extension lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1926-1927.

University Minnesota, 1959. Director conservation education National Wildlife Federation, 1950-1957.

Life member of advisory Council Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell.

Fulbright fellow to New Zealand, 1949.

Achievements

• Ephraim Laurence Palmer has been listed as a noteworthy naturalist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Ecological Society of America, American Nature Study Society (secretary 1925-1929, president 1936-1937), American Society Mammalogists, National Council Nature Study Supervisors (president 1927), Department Science Instruction of National Education Association (president 1929), Wildlife Society, Wildlife Committee National Research Council, (chairman 1943-1945), National Audubon Society (director 1943-1949), National Association Biology Teachers (president 1947, honorary), International Union Consultant of Natural Resources (honorary. Member). Nature Conservancy (Board of Governors, Nash Conservation award 1954), Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha, Phi Delta Kappa, Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi. Club: Rotary.

Connections

Married Katherine East. World World War II Van Winkle, December 24, 1921. Children: Laurence Van Winkle (deceased), Richard Robin.

Father:

Ephraim Clark Palmer

Mother:

Laura Lincoln (Darrow) Palmer

Spouse:

Katherine East. World World War II Van Winkle

child:

Laurence Van Winkle Palmer (deceased)

child:

Richard Robin Palmer