Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 – December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian...
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citizen of the United States in August 1944. She met ornithologist Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978) in 1944 and they married in 1953, not long after he retired...
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Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1961 – President Herbert Hoover 1962 - Alexander Wetmore 1963 - William H. Phelps, Jr. 1964 – Gilbert H. Grosvenor 1965 - James...
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Wetmore may refer to: Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978), American ornithologist and avian paleontologist Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, New Brunswick politician...
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Mesite (category Taxa named by Alexander Wetmore)
Aves Clade: Columbimorphae Order: Mesitornithiformes Wetmore, 1960 Family: Mesitornithidae Wetmore, 1960 Genera Mesitornis Monias Respective ranges: brown...
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Bathornis (category Taxa named by Alexander Wetmore)
which also heralded the cathartid Phasmagyps. First described by Alexander Wetmore, the bird was referred as a "cedicnemidid" (a wastebasket taxon for...
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Raphinae (category Taxa named by Alexander Wetmore)
Highlights Human Predation, with a Comment on the Status of the Family Raphidae Wetmore, 1930". Annales de Paléontologie. 91 (2): 167–180. Bibcode:2005AnPal..91...
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Commander Samuel Wilder King on the minesweeper USS Tanager (AM-5), and Alexander Wetmore directing the team of scientists, the expedition studied the plant...
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Presbyornithidae (category Taxa named by Alexander Wetmore)
referred to as stem group representatives of the Phoenicopteriformes. Wetmore, Alexander (1926). "Fossil birds from the Green River Deposits of Easter Utah"...
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also minimal, and was under the primary care of Assistant Secretary Alexander Wetmore. He was the first Smithsonian Secretary to retire, ending his tenure...
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