Background

Baker, Rollin Harold was born on November 11, 1916 in Cordova, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles Laurence and Minnie Louise (Perkins) Baker.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University Texas, 1937; Master of Science, Texas A. and M. U., 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, University Kansas, 1948.

Career

Wildife technical, National Park Service, Texas Big Bend, summer 1937; field biologist, Texas Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, College Station, 1938-1939; biologist, Texas Game and Fish Commission, 1939-1943; assistant curator mammals, Museum Natural History, U. Kansas, 1948-1955; assistant instructor, Museum Natural History, U. Kansas, 1946-1948; instructor, Museum Natural History, U. Kansas, 1948-1949; assistant professor, Museum Natural History, U. Kansas, 1949-1954; associate professor zoology, Museum Natural History, U. Kansas, 1954-1955; acting director, Museum Natural History, 1950-1951; director music, professor zoology and fisheries and wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1955-1982; director, professor emeritus, Michigan State University, East Lansing, since 1983; curator, Prairie Edge Museum, Eagle Lake, Texas, since 1983. Leader music expeditions western states and Mexico, for collecting and observating animal life, 1949-1983. Also visiting investigator Rockefeller Institute.Medicine, 1944.

Achievements

• Rollin Harold Baker has been listed as a noteworthy biologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Records of mammals from Ecuador (Publications of the Museum, Michigan State University)
  • Michigan Mammals First edition by Baker, Rollin H (1983) Hardcover
  • Michigan Mammals

Membership

Served from ensign to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Captain Reserve, retired. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Member American Society Mammalogists (director 1956-1978), Wildlife Society, American Ornithological Society Southwestern Naturalists, Society Study Evolution, Society Systematic Zoology (council 1958-1961), Ecological Society of America, Texas Society Mammalogists (honorary. President 1983-1984), Explorers Club, Michigan Polar-Equator Club (president 1976-1978), Rotary, Sigma Xi, Alpha Epsilon Delta, Beta Beta Beta, Phi Sigma, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi.

Connections

Married Mary Elizabeth Waddell, March 21, 1939. Children: Elizabeth Alice, Bruce Rollin, Byron Laurence.

Father:

Charles Laurence Baker

Mother:

Minnie Louise (Perkins) Baker

Spouse:

Mary Elizabeth Waddell

child:

Elizabeth Alice Baker

child:

Byron Laurence Baker

child:

Bruce Rollin Baker