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Sydney Anderson
1927–2018
A leading American mammalogist, museum curator, and field researcher, he helped shape modern study of South American mammals. His long career joined careful taxonomy with a gift for building collections, collaborations, and lasting scientific resources.
7 Audiobooks
Records of Harvest Mice, Reithrodontomys, from Central America, with Description of a New Subspecies from Nicaragua
by Sydney Anderson, J. Knox Jones
Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in Wyoming, Colorado, and Adjacent Areas
by Sydney Anderson
The Baculum in Microtine Rodents
by Sydney Anderson
Mammals of the Grand Mesa, Colorado
by Sydney Anderson
Neotropical Bats from Western México
by Sydney Anderson
Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
by Sydney Anderson
About the author
Born in Topeka, Kansas, on January 11, 1927, Sydney "Syd" Anderson became one of the best-known mammalogists of his generation. An obituary published by colleagues notes that he began his professional career at the University of Kansas, where he worked as assistant curator in charge of mammals while completing his Ph.D. work.
He later spent decades at the American Museum of Natural History, rising from assistant curator to curator of mammals. Anderson also served as president of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1974 to 1976, reflecting the respect he had earned in his field.
He is especially remembered for his major work on Bolivian and Neotropical mammals, including Mammals of Bolivia: Taxonomy and Distribution (1997). Anderson died in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 12, 2018, at age 91.