Background
Theodore Sherman Palmer was born on January 26, 1868 in Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States. Son of Henry Austin and Jane King Palmer (Day).
Theodore Sherman Palmer was born on January 26, 1868 in Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States. Son of Henry Austin and Jane King Palmer (Day).
BA from the University California at Berkeley, 1888, and a Ph.D, 1895.
In 1889 he joined the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy of the United States Department of Agriculture under Clinton Hart Merriam. He was Assistant Chief of the Department from 1896 to 1902, and then from 1910 to 1914. He became interested in the legislation affecting wildlife, leading a branch of the organization to deal with it from 1902 to 1910 and from 1914 to 1916.
He wrote the preliminary draft of the treaty for protection of birds migrating between Canada and the United States (1916), and was Chairman of the Committee which prepared the first regulations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Acting (1918).
He retired in 1933.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ornithologists Union (secretary 1917-1937), California Academy Sciences. Member American Society Naturalists, American Bison Society, American Fisheries Society, American Forestry Association, American Genetic Association, Baird Ornithological. Club, National Parks Association, Save Redwoods League, American Game Protective Association, International Committee Bird Protection, Washington Academy Sciences, Wilson Ornithological.
Club, Sigma Xi.
Member Society American Foresters, American Museum Natural History, Boone and Crockett Society. Member Ornithological Gesellschaft in Bayern, Royal Hungarian Institute Ornithological. Member Cooper Orrnithol.
Club, International Association Game Commissioners, Society Preservation Fauna Empire (London).
Club: Cosmos.
Married Bertha Marilla Ellis, November 21, 1911.
Banker, and Founder of Claremont, California and Pomona College
US Surveyor General, California, Founding Trustees of the University of California at Berkeley (formerly College of California), Professor of Mining and State Senator.
