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Alfred Cleveland Weed
American biologist who traveled to the Arctic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred Cleveland Weed was an American ichthyologist, known for expeditions to the Arctic, where he catalogued the region's fish.[1][2]
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Born | 1881 (1881) |
Died | 1953 (aged 71ā72) |
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Occupation | ichthyologist |
Known for | Catalogued Arctic fish |
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Weed was born in North Rose, New York, and earned his bachelor's degree at Cornell University.[1]
He was hired as assistant curator of the Field Museum of Natural History in 1921.[2] By his retirement, in 1942, he was serving as full curator of the Fishery department.[3]
He made multiple scientific field trips to Labrador and Greenland in the 1920s and 1930s.[1]