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Half Hours With the Lower Animals, Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells, Insects, and Crustaceans
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The Holders of Holderness; a History and Genealogy of the Holder Family With Especial Reference to Christopher Holder, Head of the American Quaker Branch;
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Joseph Bassett Holder was an American zoologist and physician. He served as a physician for Fort Jefferson, and later became one of the establishers of the American Museum of Natural History of New York City and curator of a zoology collection of invertebrates.
Background
Joseph Bassett Holder was born on October 26, 1824 in Lynn, Massachussets, United States. He traced his ancestry to the ancient Saxon Holders of Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was a descendant of that much persecuted but intrepid Christopher, progenitor of the Quaker Holders of America, who arrived in Boston, July 27, 1656. His mother, Rachael Bassett, was a woman of unusual mental endowment, a minister of the Society of Friends, poet and author of parts, though she destroyed most of her writings for conscience's sake. His father, Aaron Lummus Holder, a birthright Friend, by profession a wholesale and retail druggist, destined his son for a career in medicine. As a boy Joseph spent much time with his Bassett grandparents in Uxbridge, where, in Linset Woodland, which, he says, became to him "a little Paradise, " he studied the great variety of natural objects in botany and zoology present there and laid the foundation of the knowledge which enabled him later to prepare the first list of the birds and plants of Essex County. His early friendship with Agassiz, whose summer laboratory at Nahant lay within sight of the Lynn shore, and with whom he made dredging expeditions in the bay, strongly influenced his later career.
Education
Holder completed the course at the Friends' School in Providence, Rhode Island, and entered the Harvard Medical School, where he served Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes as demonstrator in anatomy.
Career
Holder practised in Swampscott and afterward in Lynn, where he was early made city physician and achieved reputation as a surgeon. In 1859, at the instance of Agassiz and Professor Spencer F. Baird of the Smithsonian Institution, he accepted a post as surgeon-in-chief to the government engineers on the Florida reef, in order to prosecute an exhaustive study of its formation and of the plant and animal life of the reef.
When the Civil War broke out, Holder, in other respects a consistent "Free Quaker, " entered the army, becoming health officer and surgeon of the military prison at Fort Jefferson on the Dry Tortugas. Here he remained for seven years, fighting yellow fever and scurvy among the prisoners and pursuing his scientific researches upon the reef. As a result of these studies he was able to send to Agassiz and to the Smithsonian valuable collections and data.
In 1869 he was transferred to Fortress Monroe. Two years later he resigned to accept the position of assistant to Agassiz's pupil, Alfred S. Bickmore, who was then inaugurating the new American Museum of Natural History in New York. He devoted himself to the zoology collection, of which in 1881 he became curator. From 1885 until his death he specialized in marine zoology.
Besides many scientific and popular papers, he wrote History of the American Fauna (1877); The Atlantic Right Whales; and in 1885 published a revised edition of J. G. Wood's Our Living World. He interested himself in local history and genealogy, and his researches into the story of the Holder family in America furnished the nucleus of The Holders of Holderness, published by his son, Charles Frederick.
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Membership
Holder was a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a founder and fellow of the American Ornithological Union; a member of the Society of Eastern Naturalists; member of the Society for Psychical Research; fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, Geographical and Linnaen societies, and member of the Harvard Club.
Personality
Holder was a high-minded man of wide culture, a bit of an artist, and a writer of considerable charm.
Connections
Holder was married to Emily Augusta Gove, of distinguished Quaker ancestry.