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Nichols was born as son of John White Treadwell Nichols in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Excerpt from The Fresh-Water Fishes of China, Vol. 9 The Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History have brought together general collections of fresh-water fishes from representative localities in China. "These make up what is probably the most nearly adequate representation of such fishes that has been assembled to date, and with its aid it is possible to obtain a fair idea of the fauna as a whole, which in the last analysis will probably be found to comprise some 500 forms. This supposes that even in the best known areas a few undescribed species still await discovery, and that close study of large series of specimens of various variable and difficult groups, from different parts of China, will lead to the recognition of a number of new forms well in excess of the number of such which will doubtless be found to be merely nominal" (Nichols, in Andrews, R. C., 1932, Natural History of Central Asia, I, p. 597). This is primarily a general report on the American Museum collections of Chinese fresh-water fishes. It also aims to be a comprehensive review of the freshwater fishes of China proper, outlying territories such as Manchuria and Mongolia not being included. No attempt has been made to include marine species, or brackish-water species with marine affinities, though such may at times occur in fresh water. In so far as possible, all recent literature has been studied and carefully considered to, and including, the year 1934 (see beyond). The last few years before the present war witnessed much active interest in systematic ichthyology in China; in stimulating this interest the series of preliminary papers issued by the American Museum can presumably claim a share. We now aim to acquaint the several workers in this field more fully with the extent of our collections and the conclusions to which they lead. It is also hoped that the present volume will serve as a "handbook" to the subject. To review briefly the sources of the principal material examined in preparing this report, the first small collections of Chinese fresh-water fishes to reach the American Museum were obtained from the Reverend John Graham in Yunnan, and by Doctor H. R. Caldwell in Fukien, and reported on in 1918. Doctor Caldwell later sent in more extensive collections from the neighborhood of Yenping. 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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Ichthyologist ornithologist Zoologist
Nichols was born as son of John White Treadwell Nichols in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1906 he studied vertebrate zoology at Harvard College where he graduated to Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor of Arts).
John Treadwell Nichols (June 11, 1883 – November 10, 1958) was an American ichthyologist. In 1907 he joined the American Museum of Natural History as assistant in the department of mammalogy. In 1913 he founded Copeia the official journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
In 1916 he described the long lost Bermuda petrel together with Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray who first sighted this bird within a flock of other petrels in 1906 on Castle Island, Bermuda 45 years before it was officially rediscovered by Mowbray"s son Louis.
He also described the fish genus Bajacalifornia. He also worked with a team of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.
From 1913 to 1952 he was first assistant curator, then associate curator in charge and finally curator in the Department of Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History. Nichols wrote 1,000 articles and several books (mostly about fish but also about birds) and he made many expeditions around the world.
He died in Garden City, Long Island, New New York
(John Nichols was the curator of Recent Fishes at the Amer...)
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