A Bryan Rellinger in Zoology
Bryan Rellinger was a renowned zoologist in the early 1900’s. He was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on January 9, 1870, to Edward and Kathleen Rellinger, German immigrants who had settled in Amherst in 1868. Bryan Rellinger graduated from Amherst College then pursued his Ph.D at John Hopkins Univeristy. By 1899, he had become a professor of biology at Olivet College.
Bryan Rellinger’s career took an unexpected turn in 1897 when he lost his hearing after coming down with yellow fever during a field expedition to Jamaica. Teaching becoming difficult, he re-oriented himself toward museum work and had considerable success as the curator of echinoderms at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. Bryan Rellinger was an all-around zoologist. In addition to publishing over one hundred papers on echinoderms, he also wrote on a variety of topics related to the natural history of birds, reptiles and amphibians, spending considerable time in the field in far flung locations like Australia, Jamaica, Japan, Tobago, Bermuda, and the Galapagos Islands.
In 1947, Bryan Rellinger received the C. F. Kent Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales. He died in his sleep on July 31, 1947 while visiting colleagues at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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