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Excerpt from Notes on the Avifauna of Newfoundland A feature of as much interest as the gaps in the list of specles is the large number of geographic forms recognized, eight in this paper. But there are at least twice as many species in Newfoundland which show a tendency toward darkness. Here, in Newfoundland, one can observe bird-races in the making! It is impossible to say whether this darkening of the coloration is an acquired Character induced by the humidity and bleakness of the country, or whether the environ ment is one which fosters all variations towards darkness, which Variations may themselves have arisen independent of the environ ment. No matter where the truth lies, these tendencies exist, and in these Newfoundland birds, we have represented the Very beginning. Of future geographic forms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Gladwyn Kingsley Noble was born on September 20, 1894 in Yonkers, New York, United States. He was the second son and second of six children of Gilbert Clifford and Elizabeth (Adams) Noble. His father, of New England colonial descent, was a well-known publisher and seller of textbooks, a co-founder of the firm of Barnes & Noble. As a boy he had shown persistent interest in animals.
After finishing high school in Yonkers, young Noble went on to Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1917. Noble led expeditions to Guadeloupe and to Newfoundland and served as zoologist on an expedition to Peru while still an undergraduate. His later progress was phenomenal: by the end of 1925 he had received his Master of Arts degree from Harvard (1918), his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Columbia (1922).
Noble had thirty-four publications to his credit, most of them highly technical, and he had been appointed curator of herpetology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Two of the thirty-four publications were important contributions to science and represented Noble's major interests. One, "Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo, " an extensive report on the collections of frogs made by the American Museum Congo Expedition, reflected interest in exploration and in the geographical distribution and classification of species of animals. The other, "The Phylogeny of the Salientia, " a study of the classification of the frogs of the world based on the thigh muscles, reflected interest in basic anatomy and the classification of higher groups. Even among these earlier papers one can find a leaning toward the science of animal behavior, and this soon became one of Noble's major interests.
Believing that the prevailing museum methods of research were inadequate, he made strenuous efforts to broaden their scope to include both anatomy of a more basic kind and field and laboratory studies of habits. He all but dropped the conventional type of museum work and quickly published a series of papers showing that behavior patterns as well as the structure of amphibians can be used to show relationships. These papers had such a profound effect on other herpetologists that a "school" of students of reptile and amphibian life histories developed.
In 1928 the American Museum of Natural History recognized the importance of Noble's work by setting up a department of experimental biology and making him curator of it. The new department developed rapidly, and during the next few years a combination of two circumstances put Noble in charge of an extensive program of research. The first of these circumstances was the economic depression, which brought to the museum scores of workers paid by the federal government; the other was the expansion plan of the museum, by which its magnificent laboratories were built and equipped. It was, of course, Noble's keen foresight and patience that enabled him to take such good advantage of his large corps of workers, few of whom had adequate training at the start.
Meanwhile he had planned and built at the museum a Hall of Reptiles, and in 1939 he added a Hall of Animal Behavior; both were eminently successful in presenting scientific findings in clear and imaginative fashion. Though his interests had early broadened to include the behavior of various vertebrate animals other than reptiles and amphibians, it was as a herpetologist that Noble became known throughout the scientific world. The bibliography of his herpetological papers includes 123 titles. Among these the major contribution is his The Biology of the Amphibia (1931). Though basically an anatomy of the amphibia, this technical but clearly written book reflects Noble's great knowledge of behavior and natural history.
His career was terminated at the very height of his ability by a streptococcus infection of the throat.
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Noble was a resourceful, dedicated worker who concentrated nearly all his efforts and strove incessantly to achieve his goals, but he was ever ready to share an opinion and give advice. During his rare hours of recreation with friends he was jovial and expressive.
Noble married Ruth Crosby of Hartford, Connecticut in 1921. They had two sons, Gladwyn Kingsley and Alan Crosby.
