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Keith R. Kelson
A mid-20th-century American mammalogist, he helped shape how scientists studied and classified North American mammals. His name is most closely linked with careful taxonomic work and the influential two-volume reference The Mammals of North America.
5 Audiobooks
Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rodents
by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Keith R. Kelson
Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rabbits
by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Keith R. Kelson
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
The Subspecies of the Mexican Red-Bellied Squirrel, Sciurus aureogaster
by Keith R. Kelson
About the author
Born in Wales, Utah, on August 11, 1918, Keith R. Kelson was an American zoologist and mammalogist whose research focused on the classification and geographic distribution of mammals. He died on May 22, 2005.
Kelson published a series of specialized studies on North American rodents, rabbits, squirrels, and other mammals, and his work is still remembered in bibliographic and scientific records. He is best known as co-author, with E. Raymond Hall, of The Mammals of North America (1959), a major reference work in North American mammalian systematics and biogeography.
For readers coming to him through older scientific texts, Kelson stands out as a careful field-oriented scholar whose writing reflects a period when cataloging species and mapping their ranges was central to understanding the natural world.