Background
Schmitt, Waldo Lasalle was born on June 25, 1887 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Ewald and Fanny Mathilde (Hesselbach) Schmitt.
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Waldo Lasalle Schmitt
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Bachelor of Science, George Washington University, 1913, Doctor of Philosophy, 1922. Master of Arts, University of California, 1916. Doctor of Science, University of Southern California, 1948.
Career
Aid in economics botany, United States Department of Agriculture, 1907-1910. Scientific assistant, United States Bureau Fisheries, 1910-1913, naturalist, 1913-1914. Assistant curator, Division Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum, 1915-1920, curator, 1920-1943, head curator of biology, 1943-1947, zoölogy, 1947-1957.
Research associate Smithsonian Institution, 1957-1977.
Walter Rathbone traveling scholar, Smithsonian Institution, in South America, 1925-1927. At Tortugas Marie Laboratory, 1924-1925, 1930-1932.
With Hancock Pacific Expeditions., 1932-1935. Smithsonian-Hartford Expedition to West Indies, 1937.
Naturalist President Roosevelt’s cruise to Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands, 1938.
Hancock Atlantic Expedition, North. Coast South America-Netherlands West Indies, 1939. King Crab investigation for United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska, 1940. State Department detail to Latin America, 1941, 42, 43.
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Paris, Turin 1954. Member Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition, Belgian Congo, Sudan, Egypt, 1955, Caribbean, 1956, and 58, 59, Tahiti and Society Island, 1957, also Quintana Roo, Yucatan, 1960, Bahamas, 1961, Palmer Peninsula Survey USARP, Antarctica, 1962-1963.
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Membership
Member Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition, Belgian Congo, Sudan, Egypt, 1955, Caribbean, 1956, and 58, 59, Tahiti and Society Island, 1957, also Quintana Roo, Yucatan, 1960, Bahamas, 1961, Palmer Peninsula Survey USARP, Antarctica, 1962-1963. Member of the board of trustees Slocum-Lunz Foundation, Charleston, South Carolina., International Oceanographic Foundation, Serological Museum Rutgers University. Member United States Navy Oceanographic Conference, 1925, chairman conference Importance and Needs of Systematics in Biology, National Research Council, 1953.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, California Academy Sciences.
Member Society Systemic Zoology, American Society Limnology and Oceanography, American Society Zoological, American Institute Biological Science, American Geophysical Union Biological Society Washington, Washington Academy Sciences, Society Vertebrate Paleontology, Association Meiobenthologists, Association Tropical Biology, Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Paleontological. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Connections
Married Alvina Stumm, November 19, 1914. Children: Waldo Ernest (deceased), Barbara Ann (Mistress Robert T. Lundy, United States Navy).
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