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Henry Philemon Attwater (28 April 1854, Brighton – 25 September 1931, Houston) was a British-Canadian-American naturalist and conservationist.〔(Attwater, Henry Philemon - Texas State Historical Association )〕 Educated at St. Nicholas Episcopal College in Shoreham, West Sussex, Attwood emigrated in 1873 from England to Ontario, Canada, where he engaged in farming and beekeeping. In 1883 he and a friend, John A. Morden, prepared and exhibited natural history specimens. In 1884 the two Canadians collected specimens in Bexar County, Texas. During the latter part of 1884 and early 1885 Attwater and Gustave Toudouze, a naturalist and taxidermist from Losoya, were hired by the state of Texas to prepare and exhibit the Texas Pavilion's natural history specimens at the New Orleans World's Fair. On New Year's Eve in 1885 in Chatham, Ontario, Attwater married a widow with two children. In 1886 Attwater with his acquired family moved to London, Ontario, where he ran a small museum which proved to be financially unsuccessful and closed in the summer of 1887. In 1889 the family emigrated from Canada to the U.S.A., where they lived in Sherman, Texas and then in San Antonio. During the 1890s Attwater collected and lectured throughout Texas and wrote on natural history and agricultural subjects. In 1900 he moved from San Antonio to Houston to become the Southern Pacific Railroad's agricultural and industrial agent. He continued in this position until his retirement in 1913. In the 1920s he sold his natural history collection to the Witte Museum. Attwater was the director of the National Audubon Society from 1900 to 1910. He worked for the passage of the 1903 Model Game Law and hunting license laws. He also promoted legislation to protect the mourning dove ''Zenaida macroura''. The species ''Peromyscus attwateri'' (Texas mouse or Attwater's white-footed mouse) is named in his honor.〔 ==Subspecies named in honor of Attwood== *''Geomys bursarius attwateri'' (Attwater's pocket gopher)〔 *''Lepus aquaticus attwateri'' (Attwater's swamp rabbit)〔 *''Neotoma floridana attwateri'' (Attwater's wood rat)〔 *''Tympanuchus cupido attwateri'' (Attwater's prairie chicken)〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Philemon Attwater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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