Olin L. Webb

Best known as the coauthor of An Annotated Checklist of Nebraskan Bats, he contributed to a small but useful body of zoological writing focused on Nebraska wildlife. The book, written with J. Knox Jones, brought together records on bat species found in the state and served as a reference for students and researchers interested in regional mammals.

An obituary published in 2026 describes him as a lifelong environmentalist whose early years along Nebraska’s Platte River encouraged wide interests in biology, botany, paleontology, zoology, and geology. That picture fits the scientific work associated with his name: careful, local, and grounded in close observation of the natural world.

Reliable biographical details about his broader career are limited in the sources readily available online, so much of his public profile today comes through his published bat research and the remembrance of his long-standing interest in wildlife.