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Walter Woelber Dalquest
1917–2000
A field biologist, mammalogist, and paleontologist, he spent decades studying North American and Mexican mammals and left a lasting mark on natural history in Texas. His work joined careful field observation with a deep interest in fossils, habitats, and the animals of the American Southwest.
4 Audiobooks
A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus
by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Walter Woelber Dalquest
Pipistrellus cinnamomeus Miller 1902 Referred to the Genus Myotis
by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, Walter Woelber Dalquest
Mammals of Washington, Volume 2 University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History
by Walter Woelber Dalquest
Tadarida femorosacca (Merriam) in Tamaulipas, Mexico
by Walter Woelber Dalquest, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
About the author
Born in Seattle on September 11, 1917, he studied at the University of Washington, earning a B.S. in 1940 and an M.S. in 1941, and later completed his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University in 1951. He became known as an American zoologist and paleontologist whose research focused especially on mammals, including living species and fossil forms.
Much of his career was tied to Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he arrived in 1952 and retired from full-time service in 1984. He was remembered as one of the university's most productive scholars, and his name remains closely linked to the Dalquest Desert Research Station, land he and his wife Rose donated for scientific study in the Big Bend region.
Dalquest published widely and built a reputation for strong fieldwork, with important work on the mammals of Mexico and the fossil record of Texas and the surrounding region. He died on September 27, 2000, in Wichita Falls, Texas, after a battle with Parkinson's disease.