Charles Lincoln Edwards
Zoologist and 1889 president of the American Folklore Society.
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Charles Lincoln Edwards was an American zoologist whose research included studies of development in reptiles and sea cucumbers, chromosomes of Ascaris roundworms, and taxonomy of sea cucumbers and copepods, naming at least five species of copepods found in sea cucumber body cavities. He had a secondary interest in folklore, being the author of Bahama Songs and Stories, and was in 1889 the president of the American Folklore Society. Edwards was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Society of Zoologists, the American Society of Naturalists, and Southern California Academy of Sciences, as well as the Mexican Society for Geography and Statistics, Mexican Society of Natural History, and Antonio Alzate Scientific Society. He was born in Oquawka, Illinois, on December 8, 1863, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig in 1890.
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- He founded the Beta Eta Chapter of Delta Tau Delta at the University of Minnesota in 1883.
- He was dismissed from the University of Texas at Austin after two years for libeling a member of the board of regents.
- A species of eel, Moringua edwardsi, was named for him in 1889 by David Starr Jordan and C. H. Bollman.
- He served as Western Division President of Delta Tau Delta from 1883 to 1884.
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When did Charles Lincoln Edwards die?
Charles Lincoln Edwards died on 6 May 1937.
Where did Charles Lincoln Edwards study?
Charles Lincoln Edwards studied at Lombard College, University of Minnesota, Indiana University and Leipzig University.
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