Background
Allen, Glover Morrill was born on February 8, 1879 in Walpole, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Review Nathaniel Glover and Harriet Ann (Schouler) Allen.
Allen, Glover Morrill was born on February 8, 1879 in Walpole, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Review Nathaniel Glover and Harriet Ann (Schouler) Allen.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1901, Master of Arts, 1903, Doctor of Philosophy, 1904, graduate student, 1906-1907.
After graduating, he lectured in zoology at Harvard and held the position of Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He traveled widely, to Central and South America, to West Africa, the Nile, the Belgian Congo, and Australia. His publications include Bats: Biology, Behavior and Folklore.
Checklist of African Mammals.
And Mammals of China and Mongolia. He was the president of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1927 to 1929.
Member expeditions to Bahama Islands, 1904, British East. Africa, 1909, Grenada, British West Indies California California, 1910, Sudan, 1912, Liberia, 1926, Brazil, 1929. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ornithologists’ Union, Harvard Travelers’. Member Boston Society of Natural History, Nuttall Ornithological.
Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Sarah Moody Cushing, June 26, 1911.
