Background
Heilner, Van Campen was born on July 1, 1899 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel and Adelaide Lincoln (Breese) Heilner.
Heilner, Van Campen was born on July 1, 1899 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel and Adelaide Lincoln (Breese) Heilner.
Studied Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Graduate Lake Placid-Florida School, 1918. Master of Science, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1927.
Studied ichthyology under Doctor J. T. Nichols, American Museum Natural History.
Associate editor Field and Stream. Field representative in ichthyology of American Museum of Natural History, ichthyologist expedition to Peru and Ecuador, 1924-1925, Alaska, 1927, Cuba, 1934-1935. Peabody Museum of Yale expedition to Tiena del Fuego and Straits of Magellan, 1948.
First naturalist to make motion pictures successfully of the roseate spoonbill in its national haunts.
Disc. several new species of West Indian fishes.
Fellow Royal Geography Society, Royal Anthropology Institute (London), American Geography Society. Member American Museum Natural History (honorary life), American Society of Mammalogists, American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of Revolution, Huguenot Society, Bombay Natural History Society.
Member British Sea Anglers Society.
Mason (32 degree).; Clubs: Explorers (life).
Married Mary Louisiana Vie, June, 1919 (divorced 1951). Married second, Raquel Romero, February 19, 1950. Children: Mary, Samuel.