E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

1902–1986

A leading American mammalogist, he helped shape the study of North American mammals through decades of research, teaching, and museum work. His best-known work, the two-volume The Mammals of North America, became a classic reference in the field.

16 Audiobooks

North American Yellow Bats, 'Dasypterus,' and a List of the Named Kinds of the Genus Lasiurus Gray

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, J. Knox Jones

A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Walter Woelber Dalquest

Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rodents

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Keith R. Kelson

A New Pocket Gopher (Thomomys) and A New Spiny Pocket Mouse (Liomys) from Michoacán, Mexico

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Bernardo Villa Ramírez

Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rabbits

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Keith R. Kelson

An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacán, México

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Bernardo Villa Ramírez

A New Subspecies of Microtus montanus from Montana and Comments on Microtus canicaudus Miller

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Keith R. Kelson

Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Marsupials, Insectivores and Carnivores

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Keith R. Kelson

Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of North American Microtines

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, E. Lendell Cockrum

A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

Pipistrellus cinnamomeus Miller 1902 Referred to the Genus Myotis

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Walter Woelber Dalquest

American Weasels

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

Two New Pocket Gophers from Wyoming and Colorado

by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, H. Gordon Montague

Tadarida femorosacca (Merriam) in Tamaulipas, Mexico

by Walter Woelber Dalquest, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11]

by Bernardo Villa Ramírez, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

About the author

Born in Imes, Kansas, on May 11, 1902, he studied at the University of Kansas before earning both his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under naturalist Joseph Grinnell. He later served as Curator of Mammals at Berkeley.

In 1944, he returned to Kansas to lead the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History and chair the Department of Zoology. Over the course of his career, he published hundreds of articles and several books, and he became especially well known for co-authoring the landmark two-volume The Mammals of North America with Keith R. Kelson.

He was also known as a teacher and mentor who influenced a generation of mammalogists. Hall died in Lawrence, Kansas, on April 2, 1986.