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Walter Woelber Dalquest
1917–2000
A field-hardened zoologist and paleontologist, he spent decades studying the mammals and fossil life of North America and became a beloved fixture at Midwestern State University in Texas.
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 trained as a biologist at the University of Washington, earning his B.S. in 1940 and M.S. in 1941, and later completed a Ph.D. at Louisiana State University in 1951. His career centered on mammalogy, paleontology, and careful field research, and he became especially known for work on the mammals of Mexico, Texas, and the North American Pleistocene.
He joined Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1952 and remained there for decades, retiring from full-time service in 1984 as an emeritus professor of biology. Accounts from colleagues describe him as both a highly productive scholar and an influential teacher whose work ranged from living mammals to fossil faunas.
Walter Woelber Dalquest died on September 27, 2000. His legacy lives on through his scientific papers, books, and the generations of students and researchers who benefited from his curiosity, discipline, and love of natural history.