Edmund Jaeger
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Born | Loup City, Nebraska |
January 28, 1887
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Riverside, California |
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Citizenship | American |
Fields | Biology |
Institutions | Riverside City College Riverside Municipal Museum |
Alma mater | Occidental College |
Known for | Hibernation of common poorwill |
Influences | Lawrence Bruner J. Smeaton Chase T. D. A. Cockerell Carl Eytel John H. Kellogg Marcus E. Jones David S. Jordan Willis L. Jepson John Muir Walter T. Swingle |
Influenced | David D. Keck |
Notable awards | Honorary Doctor of Science, Occidental College (1953) Phi Beta Kappa, Occidental College Chapter (1962) Professor Emeritus, Riverside City College (1965) Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of California, Riverside (1967) Member, University of California Chapter of Sigma Xi (1966) [1]:216,378,397,404,406 |
Author abbrev. (botany) | E.Jaeger[2] |
Edmund Carroll Jaeger, D.Sc.,[1] (January 28, 1887 – August 2, 1983) was an American biologist known for his works on desert ecology. He was born in Loup City, Nebraska to Katherine (née Gunther) and John Philip Jaeger,[3]:V.I,p.159 and moved to Riverside, California in 1906 with his family.[4] He was the first to document, in The Condor,[5] a state of extended torpor, approaching hibernation, in a bird, the common poorwill.[6] He also described this in the National Geographic Magazine.[7]
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Life
Jaeger first attended the newly relocated Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles (in 1914), but moved to Palm Springs in 1915, where he taught at the one-room schoolhouse. At Palm Springs he met artist Carl Eytel,[8]:168–71 and authors J. Smeaton Chase[8] and Charles Francis Saunders.[8][9] These men formed what University of Arizona Professor Peter Wild called a "Creative Brotherhood"[3] that lived in Palm Springs in the early 20th century. Other Brotherhood members included cartoonist and painter Jimmy Swinnerton,[8] author George Wharton James,[8] and photographers Fred Clatsworthy[8][10] and Stephen H. Willard.[8] The men lived near each other (like Jaeger, Eytel built his own cabin),[11] traveled together throughout the Southwest, helped with each other's works, and exchanged photographs which appeared in their various books.[3] He then returned to Occidental to complete his degree in 1918 and started teaching at Riverside Junior College. Retiring from teaching after 30 years, he worked the Riverside Municipal Museum[12] in Riverside. During all these years Jaeger used his Palm Springs cabin for his research trips across the desert.[citation needed] Throughout his career he wrote many popular nature books and became known as the "dean of the California deserts".[13][14]
Works
Books
- (Listed in order of first publication.)
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Articles
Jaeger contributed to over 25 magazines and journals[1]:443–454 including:
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History of Palm Springs
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Archives of Jaeger's work
- Much of Jaeger's original work is archived at the University of California, Riverside, Library Special Collections.[16]
- Also see: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Summary: biographical material, list of publications, newspapers articles and correspondence of Edmund C. Jaeger, Head of the Zoology Dept. at Riverside City College. 358 items in one box)
Honors
- The "Edmund C. Jaeger Desert Institute" on the Moreno Valley College (MVC) of the Riverside Community College District is named in his honor.[17] MCV also offers an "Edmund C. Jaeger Endowed Scholarship".[18]
- In 1986 The Nature Conservancy completed development[19] of the "Edmund C. Jaeger Nature Sanctuary" in the Chuckwalla Mountains near Desert Center, California.[20] It was in the Chuckwalla Mountains that Jaeger discovered the poorwill, and after his death in 1983, his cremated remains were scattered in the same canyon.[21]
- The University of La Verne of La Verne, California, maintains a small museum dedicated to Jaeger.[22]
- Pacific Union College of Angwin, California, annually presents an "Edmund C. Jaeger Award" in biology[23] and "Dr. Edmund C. Jaeger Scholarship Grant" in education[24] to deserving students.
- Designated as a Fellow of the California Native Plant Society in 1976.[25]
- Received the Auld Lang Syne Award from Occidental College in 1982.[26]
Patronyms
Some 28 patronyms of Jaeger have been made,[1]:234–238 including:
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. LCC QH31.J33 R97 1998 University of California, Riverside, Science Library
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (photographs by Kenneth Middleham)
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- ↑ Riverside Museum: Permanent Exhibits
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- ↑ Translated into Chinese as: 生物名称和生物學术语的词源 (sheng wu ming cheng he sheng wu xue shu yu de ci yuan). Beijing: 科学出版社 (ke xue chu ban she) (Science Press). 1965 and 1979. p. 577. OCLC 49256075 and 36154159. (responsibility includes: 滕砥平, 蔣芝英譯. (Teng Di Ping, Jiang Zhiying translation))
- ↑ UCR Library, Special Collection 110 photographs, letters, manuscripts, miscellaneous publications, notebooks and sketches (18 linear ft. 37 document boxes) OCLC 173618331
- ↑ Moreno Valley College Catalog
- ↑ MCV Scholarship List
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- ↑ Campus Times, University of La Verne, "ULV's hidden Edmund C. Jaeger Museum", December 3, 2008
- ↑ PUC Biology Scholarships
- ↑ PUC Education Scholarships
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- ↑ V.W. Steinmann & J. André, Aliso 30(1): 1. (2012)
Further reading
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External links
- Edmund Jaeger site
- Riverside (California) Metropolitan Museum
- Edmund C Jaeger Nature Sanctuary USGS Desert Center Quad, California, Topographic Map at TopoZone
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- Dr Edmund Carroll Jaeger at Find a Grave
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- American biologists
- American ecologists
- American naturalists
- American nature writers
- American science writers
- People from Los Angeles, California
- People from Sherman County, Nebraska
- People from Palm Springs, California
- People from Riverside, California
- Writers from Nebraska
- 1887 births
- 1983 deaths