author
Howard L. Freeman
A zoologist and herpetologist, he is best known in print for careful taxonomic work on amphibians, including studies of a South American frog and coauthored research on tiny Mexican salamanders. His surviving published work has the feel of classic natural history: precise, curious, and focused on how species are identified and understood.
1 Audiobook
Systematic Status of a South American Frog, Allophryne ruthveni Gaige
by John D. Lynch, Howard L. Freeman
About the author
Howard L. Freeman was a zoologist and herpetologist whose name appears on scientific work about amphibians. Reliable sources available here connect him with taxonomic research, and reference works list him specifically as a herpetologist.
For audiobook and library readers, the clearest title linked to him is Systematic Status of a South American Frog, Allophryne ruthveni Gaige, a specialized study that was also made available through Project Gutenberg. He also coauthored a later paper with James Hanken and David B. Wake describing three new species of minute Thorius salamanders from Guerrero, Mexico.
There is not much easily confirmed biographical detail online beyond his scientific authorship, so the picture that emerges is mostly through his publications: a researcher interested in classification, anatomy, and the close observation of amphibian diversity. That makes his work especially appealing to readers who enjoy the history of zoology and the careful craft of naming and describing species.