author
Harley Bakwel Sherman
b. 1894
Best remembered as a careful field naturalist, this early 20th-century mammalogist wrote close-up studies of wildlife and helped inspire tools still used in animal research today.
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Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109
by Lee R. (Lee Raymond) Dice, Harley Bakwel Sherman
About the author
Harley Bakwel Sherman, born in 1894, is chiefly associated with mammalogy and field studies of North American wildlife. Records gathered during this search link him to Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920, written with Lee R. Dice, and to later work including Breeding Habits of the Free-tailed Bat.
Museum and bibliographic sources also connect him with small-mammal research in Florida. The Florida Museum notes that H. B. Sherman studied small mammals in north-central Florida in the 1930s and invented the Sherman Trap, a live-capture trap that became widely used by biologists; the rare Sherman's fox squirrel is named in his honor.
Reliable biographical detail beyond those research connections appears limited in the sources found here. A memorial record located during the search lists him as Harley B. Sherman (1894–1976), but because comprehensive author biographies were scarce, it is safest to remember him primarily for his wildlife research, practical field innovation, and contributions to the study of mammals.