Clement Samuel Brimley
Appearance
Clement Samuel Brimley | |
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Born | 18 December 1863 |
Died | 23 July 1946 | (aged 82)
Nationality | English |
Citizenship | American |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology |
Institutions | North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | C.S. Brimley |
Clement Samuel Brimley (18 December 1863 – 23 July 1946) was a self-trained zoologist who worked at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. His brother, H.H. Brimley, was a zoologist and long-time director of the same museum. Both Brimley brothers are buried at Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. Brimley's chorus frog and the firefly Photinus brimleyi[1] were named for C.S. Brimley.
References
[edit]- ^ Faust, Lynn Frierson (2017). Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-4872-8.
External links
[edit]- Collecting Nature: The Beginning of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences—accessed 19 June 2008
- Herps of North Carolina--Brimley's Chorus Frog
- University of Iowa, Museum of Natural History--A Whale for Iowa—accessed 19 June 2008
- Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Sciences Collection—accessed 19 June 2008
- Index to the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography—accessed 19 June 2008
- Historic Oakwood Cemetery—grave listings, accessed 27 June 2008