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William was born on Februarty 14, 1832 in Roxbury, Massachussets, United States, the son of Herbert H. and Mary Ann (Brewster) Stimpson.
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William Stimpson
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At an early age William became interested in natural history. His early education was in the common schools of Boston, and in his sixteenth year he entered the upper class of the Boston High School, from which he was graduated in July 1848.
His parents were desirous that he should go into business and his excursions to the seashore and other nature pursuits were looked upon as a waste of time. As a compromise he was permitted to study civil engineering, but his employer reported that he was more interested in hunting land snails than in surveying, and advised that the boy be permitted to enter upon a career more in accord with his inclinations. Accordingly, he was allowed to enter the Boston Latin School in 1848. The following summer he went on a fishing smack to Grand Manan, collecting and studying the marine animals of that region and later was associated with the workers in Agassiz's laboratory.
Career
Through the aid of friends Stimpson received an appointment as naturalist to the North Pacific Exploring Expedition in 1852, and all parental opposition to his career as a naturalist was finally removed. He spent four years with the expedition, and returned to the United States in 1856 to begin the classification of the immense amount of material gathered during these fruitful years.
His headquarters were in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia. Nine years were thus occupied, in the course of which he visited Europe to collect comparative data, making many friends among European scientists. The results of his work were published in 1907 as volume XLIX of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Stimpson was called to the directorship of the Chicago Academy of Sciences in 1865 by his friend, Robert Kennicott, while the latter was away upon the expedition to Alaska and the Yukon from which he never returned.
Here, in a new building believed to be fire-proof, Stimpson assembled his great collection of manuscripts, drawings, and material loaned by institutions and collectors from many parts of the world. The Smithsonian collections, those of Louis Fransois de Pourtales, and specimens from many eastern naturalists, were placed at his disposal.
Priceless volumes in large number were loaned for his study, and manuscripts in preparation as well as some ready for publication were here assembled. It is probable that, previous to this time, no single depository contained as much valuable scientific material as did the Chicago Academy of Sciences in the latter part of 1871, when, in the great fire of October, the building and its treasures were destroyed.
All that was left of William Stimpson's life work were some pieces of mound-builder pottery. From this tragic blow he never recovered.
He had long been a sufferer from weakness of the lungs and his attempt to study the Gulf Stream with the Coast Survey in 1871-72 completely broke his health.
He died at Ilchester, Maryland, scarcely eight months after his loss through the Chicago fire.
Achievements
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William Stimpson founded the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. As its director he gathered one of the most extensive natural history collections in the United States. Stimpson's works were written in Latin, a noteworthy accomplishment in his day. He published many papers on mollusca and crustacea, among them being A Revision and Synonymy of the Testaceous Mollusks of New England (1851), The Crustacea and Echinodermata of the Pacific Shores of North America (1857); Notes on North American Crustacea (1859).
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Shells of New England. A Revision of the Synonymy of the Testaceous Mollusks of New England, Withe Notes on Their Structure, and Their Geographical and Bathymetrical Distribution
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Researches Upon the Hydrobiina and Allied Forms: Chiefly Made Upon Materials in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Volume 7
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Shells of New England. A Revision of the Synonymy of the Testaceous Mollusks of New England, Withe Notes on Their Structure, and Their Geographical and Bathymetrical Distribution
Views
He focused most of his studies on marine biology, particularly invertebrates.
Membership
He was honored by membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1868, and in many other scientific societies, both at home and abroad.
Connections
He had a wife, Annie Gordon, of Ilchester, Maryland, to whom he had been married on July 28, 1864. They had several children.
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American