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Clifford H. Pope

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American herpetologist
Clifford Hillhouse Pope
Born(1899-04-11)April 11, 1899
DiedJune 3, 1974(1974-06-03) (aged 75)
Known forStudy ofsnakes,reptiles,frogs,salamanders
Scientific career
FieldsHerpetologist
InstitutionsAmerican Museum of Natural History,Field Museum of Natural History
Doctoral studentsnone

Clifford Hillhouse Pope (April 11, 1899 – June 3, 1974) was a noted Americanherpetologist. He was the son of Mark Cooper Pope and Harriett Alexander (Hull) Pope, and grew up in Washington, Georgia. While in college in the summers of 1919 and 1920 Pope went to the New York Zoological Society's Tropical Research Station at Katabo PointBritish Guiana, maintained byWilliam Beebe. Starting in 1921, after graduating from theUniversity of Virginia, he spent many years in China as part of the Central Asiatic Expeditions of theAmerican Museum of Natural History, accompanyingRoy Chapman Andrews on the expedition to theGobi Desert that first discovered fossilized dinosaur eggs. Pope mastered the Chinese language and made a total of eight expeditions in Chinese territory prior to 1930.[1] In China he gave scientific names to theKuatun horned toad,Hyla sanchiangensis,Amolops chunganensis,Rana fukienensis, and others. He also did a great deal of work withKarl Patterson Schmidt. Pope worked at the American Museum of Natural History from 1921 to 1934.[2] He was president and journal editor of theAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 1935.

In 1927, theBoy Scouts of America made Pope anHonorary Scout, a new category of Scout created that same year. This distinction was given to "American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys...". The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were:Roy Chapman Andrews;Robert Bartlett;Frederick Russell Burnham;Richard E. Byrd;George Kruck Cherrie;James L. Clark;Merian C. Cooper;Lincoln Ellsworth;Louis Agassiz Fuertes;George Bird Grinnell;Charles A. Lindbergh;Donald B. MacMillan;George Palmer Putnam;Kermit Roosevelt; Carl Rungius;Stewart Edward White;Orville Wright.[3]

Starting in 1940 Pope worked at theField Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, as Curator, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, where his field efforts focused onplethodontidsalamanders in Mexico, California, and the eastern United States. Pope andArchie Carr greatly expanded the knowledge of North American turtles, and Pope was one of the first herpetologists to write factually about the giant snakes for the general public. Pope retired from the Field Museum in 1954. Pope is the author of many books includingSnakes Alive and How They Live (1937),Turtles of the United States and Canada (1939),China's Animal Frontier (1940),The Reptile World (1955) andThe Giant Snakes (1961). Pope's keelback (Amphiesma popei), Pope's emo skink (Emoia popei ), and Pope's skink (Eumeces popei ) are named in his honor. Popes' tree viper (Trimeresurus popeiorum) is named in honor of Pope and his wife Sarah H. Pope.[4] A well-known quote from Pope is that "snakes are first cowards, then bluffers, and last of all warriors."[5]

References

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  1. ^West, James E. (1931).The Boy Scouts Book of True Adventure. New York: Putnam.OCLC 8484128.
  2. ^Department of Herpetology
  3. ^"Around the World".Time. 29 August 1927. Archived fromthe original on February 20, 2008. Retrieved2007-10-24.
  4. ^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Pope, C.H.", pp. 209-210).
  5. ^Pope, C.H. (1958).Snakes Alive and How They Live. New York: Viking Press.
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