author
Olin L. Webb
A natural history writer best known for co-authoring a concise, carefully documented study of Nebraska’s bats in the early 1950s. The work has remained accessible through Project Gutenberg, giving modern readers a window into mid-century field zoology.
1 Audiobook
An Annotated Checklist of Nebraskan Bats
by Olin L. Webb, J. Knox Jones
About the author
Olin L. Webb is known from the scientific booklet An Annotated Checklist of Nebraskan Bats, published in 1952 with J. Knox Jones, Jr. The study appeared in the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History series and focused on recording and organizing information about bat species found in Nebraska.
Reliable biographical details about Webb are limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to describe him as a natural history author and collaborator in mammalogy rather than make broader claims. An obituary for Jones notes that Olin L. Webb was one of his boyhood friends and that all four members of their young naturalist circle later pursued graduate study at the University of Kansas.
What makes Webb interesting for today’s readers is the clarity of his surviving work. Even though it is brief, it reflects the careful observational style of field biology and offers a snapshot of how regional wildlife research was being documented in the mid-20th century.