Glover Morrill Allen (February 8, 1879 – February 14, 1942) was an American zoologist.
Born in Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of Reverend Nathaniel Glover Allen and Harriet Ann (Schouler) Allen, he studied at Harvard College. While still a student, Allen published The Birds of Massachusetts and A List of the Birds of New Hampshire. After graduating in 1901, he was appointed librarian to the Boston Society of Natural History. He obtained an A.M. from Harvard in 1903 and in 1904, obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard. From 1924, he lectured in zoology at Harvard and held the position of Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
He traveled widely, to Central and South America, to East and West Africa, the Nile, the Belgian Congo as a member of the eight-man Harvard Medical African Expedition (1926–1927),Strong, et al. The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo: Based on the Observations Made and Material Collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926–1927. Harvard University Press, 1930. and Australia as a member of the six-man Harvard Australian Expedition (1931–1932) along with his student, Ralph Nicholson Ellis.Ralph Ellis archives, 1898–1972 http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.sc.ellisralpharchives.xml
His publications include: Bats: Biology, Behavior and Folklore (1939), which in its time was regarded as the leading introduction to the chiroptera,Theodore Fleming, A Bat Man in the Tropics (University of California Press, 2003), p. 83.Donna J. Howell, "Plant-loving Bats, Bat-loving Plants", Natural History 85:2 (Feb. 1975), p. 54. Checklist of African Mammals, and Mammals of China and Mongolia. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1915, and the president of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1927 to 1929.Biographies of ASM Presidents, American Society of Mammalogists
Allen is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of lizards: Adolfus alleni and Bachia alleni.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Allen, G.M.", p. 5).
See also Taxa named by Glover Morrill Allen
References
External links Animal Figures in the Maya Codices – glance.matia.gr . .