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Harley Bakwel Sherman
b. 1894
A field zoologist best remembered for careful studies of mammals and bats, this early 20th-century researcher wrote with the close attention of someone who spent long stretches outdoors observing animal life firsthand. His work still speaks to readers interested in natural history, especially the habits and breeding of mammals.
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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
Born in 1894, Harley Bakwel Sherman was an American zoologist whose published work focused on mammals. He is credited as coauthor, with Lee R. Dice, of Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920, a study based on field research in western Michigan.
He is also known for Breeding Habits of the Free-Tailed Bat, a specialized study that reflects a strong interest in mammalogy and animal behavior. Even from these surviving titles, a picture emerges of a researcher drawn to close observation, patient fieldwork, and the details of how animals live and reproduce.
Available records indicate that he was born on April 21, 1894, and died on February 22, 1976. While biographical details about his personal life are limited in the sources I could confirm, his scientific writing preserves the work of a careful observer of the natural world.