Background
Zimmer, John Todd was born on February 28, 1889 in Bridgeport, Ohio, United States. Son of Franklin Pierce and Ida Virginia (Todd) Zimmer.
Zimmer, John Todd was born on February 28, 1889 in Bridgeport, Ohio, United States. Son of Franklin Pierce and Ida Virginia (Todd) Zimmer.
Bachelor of Science, University of Nebraska, 1910, Master of Arts, 1911, Doctor of Science, 1943.
Field expert in entomology, Nebraska Experiment Station, 1911-1913. Assistant entomologist, P. I. bureau of Agriculture, 1913-1916. Agricultural expert Territory Papua, 1917-1921.
Assistant curator birds, Field Museum Natural History, 1922-1930. Associate curator birds of Western Hemisphere, American Museum Natural History, 1930-1934, acting curator, 1935, executive curator, 1936-1942, curator, since 1942, became chairman, 1954.
Author: Catalogue of Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library (2 vols.), 1926. Birds of Marshall Field Peruvian Expedition, 1930. Studies of Peruvian Birds, Nos.
1-52 (continuing), since 1931. Various papers on tropical American birds, P. I. birds, birds and insects of Nebraska, etc. Editor The Auk, 1942-1947.
Fellow of the American Ornithologists’ Union (council 1937-1938, 1939-1941. Fellow A,A.A.S., New York Zoological Society. Member Society Systematic Zoology, Society for Study of Evolution, American Society of Mammalogists, Biological Society of Washington, Nebraska Ornithological Union (honorary), Sigma Xi.
Clubs: University (White Plains). Member John Burroughs Memorial Award Committee since 1942.
Married Margaret Louise Thompson, 1917. Children: Ida Elizabeth (Sprague), Lawrence Thompson.