Charles Haskins Townsend Audiobooks

1 Audiobook

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt

About the author

Born in 1859, Charles Haskins Townsend was an American zoologist and naturalist whose career centered on the study of marine life. He became especially well known for serving as director of the New York Aquarium, a position he held from 1902 to 1937, where he played a major role in bringing zoology and ocean life to a broad public audience.

Townsend was active as both a scientist and a museum leader. Reliable sources describe him as working on fishes and marine mammals, and his name appears in connection with research on whales and other sea animals during a period when American zoology was rapidly expanding.

He died in 1944, leaving behind a reputation as one of the important American naturalists of his era, remembered for combining scientific study with public education.