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He attended the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a Bachelor of Surgery in 1912, followed by a Master of Surgery in 1913.
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Tracy Irwin Storer
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He was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Davis for over 30 years. Storer was born in San Francisco, California August 17, 1889. From 1914 to 1923 he worked in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology as an assistant curator of birds and field-naturalist.
He worked with the ecologist Joseph Grinnell, with whom he co-authored and Storer received his Doctor of Philosophy from University College in 1921, and in 1923 joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, where he was the first professor of zoology and later founded the school"s Department of Zoology.
He retired in 1956 and was given a Doctor of Letters degree by University College Davis in 1960. A building on the campus, Storer Hall, is named after him.
Storer died in Davis, California on June 25, 1973.
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He served as president of several biological societies, including the Cooper Ornithological Club (as a three-time president), Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Society of Mammalogists, and the Wildlife Society, and was a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences which in 1968 awarded him the Fellow"s Medal, the Academy"s highest honor.
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