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6. Remington Kellogg
6. Remington Kellogg
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He had been recuperating from a broken pelvis suffered in a fall on the ice the previous January, but, except for this period, he had been constantly and productively engaged in research at the national museum for more than forty-nine years. Retirement, which came in 1962, brought him welcome relief from administrative duties and an opportunity to intensify his study of fossil marine mammals.
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The courses given were in accordance with a regular schedule of four years of English, history, mathematics, science, and Latin.... "From the fourth grade onward while attending public grade and high schools most of my spare time outside of school hours was devoted to studying wild life and by the time I graduated from grade school I had prepared a small collection of mounted birds and mammals." Before completing his high school studies, Kellogg had decided to attend a university where there were natural history collections.
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The two men worked closely together for many years in the Smithsonian Institution, first as curators and later in administrative positions, when Wetmore was secretary of the Smithsonian and Kellogg was director of the United States National Museum. Another admired friend of undergraduate days was Edward A
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This orolect re ~ _ _ ~ ~ _ ~ _ __ ~r _ 1 1 _ _ ~ ~ . 1 J ~ OLllL~= 111 ~C;llUg~ ~ 1li-5l important papers on marine mammals (1921 and 1922)
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of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, and Ardennes as is necessary to carry out instructions of Chief Surgeon, in connection with preparation of medical history of war." During the period of this reconnaissance, his notebook lists thirty species of birds and five of small mammals. Upon his return to Berkeley, Kellogg gave a talk to the Northern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club entitled "Experiences with Birds of France," and in 1919 he published, with Francis Harper, who had also been in the Army in France, a Christmas day bird census made at Is-sur-Tille in the Department of Cote d' Or, where the Army Medical Laboratory was situated.
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Concurrently with his ornithological work, Kellogg spent much time studying toads, mainly museum specimens, including examination of stomach contents. In 1922 he published a Biological Survey circular, one of a number that he wrote, on the toad, and during that year he planned to revise the taxon
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Merriam arranged an appointment for Kellogg as a research associate of the Carnegie Institution, a position he held from 1921 to 1943. Annual research grants from the institution helped Kellogg to carry on research on marine mammals concurrently with his extensive projects for the Biological Survey.
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These observations confirmed the belief, more recently supported by whale marking, that the Recent whalebone whales make seasonal migrations from tropical calving grounds to the food banks located on or near the colder waters of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The location of fossil remains tends to confirm the conclusion that the precursors of present day whalebone whales followed similar migration routes, and that similar types of fossilized skeletal remains occur in geological formations of corresponding age on the old shores that bordered these oceans.
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While he was treating the Archaeoceti systematically, Kellogg simultaneously worked on the description of Miocene Cetacea from both coasts of North America. This study was of major concern to him from the time of his description of the humpback whale Megaptera miocaena, in 1922, to his last paper, "Cetothere Skeletons from the Miocene Choptank Formation of Maryland and Virginia," published the week after his death.
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L McHugh, Kellogg's successor as United States Commissioner, has evaluated his work in the International Whaling Commission: "Although the United States had long since ceased to be a major whaling nation, it continued to exert a substantial influence in world whaling matters, largely through the efforts of Remington Kellogg.
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Remington Kellogg remained interested in the affairs of the Commission until his death, although illness prevented active participation, and his influence is still felt in many ways." An important by-product of the 1930 trip to Europe was the opportunity to study fossil whales in museums in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna, Padua, Bologna, Florence, Turin, Brussels, Haarlem, Amsterdam, and London. Whales of Miocene age have been found in sedimentary basins in Belgium, Austria, and Italy, and observation of the European specimens was essential to the attempt to establish the worldwide pattern of Miocene whale distribution.
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tlOnS llpS. Kellogg's position in the Division of Mammals of the National Museum naturally involved him in work on groups other than marine mammals.
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Despite the demands of these and many other activities, Kellogg managed to spend part of each day in research on fossil marine mammals. Over the years, in addition to activities closely related to his research, Kellogg served on many bodies devoted to the advancement of science and the public interest.
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He organized the collection of fossil marine mammals, which had perforce been neglected during his years of administration. Then he plunged into the study of the Miocene marine mammals of Maryland; as always, he brought into this work comparisons based on his wide studies.
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In his will, Dr. Kellogg expressed his intent to establish a fund for the advancement of knowledge of fossil marine mammals.
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- U.S. National Museum Bulletin 1914 On the retention of Neotoma campestris Allen as a separate subspecies from Neotoma foridana baileyi Merriam.
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Description of the skull of Megaptera miocaena, a fossil humpback whale from the Miocene diatomaceous earth of Lompoc, California.
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In: Additions to the Tertiary History of the Pelagic Mammals on the Pacific Coast of North A merica. Carnegie Inst.
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1-8, Zagreb. 1926 Supplementary observations on the skull of the fossil porpoise Zarhachis flagellator Cope.
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In: Progress Report of the New England RufJed Grouse Investigations Committee, by A
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U.S. Congress, Senate, Special Committee on Wild Life Resources, Hearings on the conservation of whales and other marine mammals, 72d Congr., 1 st sees., pp.
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U.S. Congress, Senate ~ ' 7 1 1 Protective measures needed to perpetuate the supply of whales off the coasts of North America, as recommended by the Committee on Marine Mammals.
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In: Continuation of Paleontological Researches, by.
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: 245-303. Report of the delegates of the United States to the International Whaling Conference, London, June 1~24, Protocol, and Final Act.
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Tertiary, Quaternary, and Recent marine mammals of South America and the West Indies. Proceedings, Eighth American Scientific Congress, Washington, 3:445-73.
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Steere. Report of the delegation of the United States to the International Whaling Conference held at London, January 4, 13, 19 and 31, 1944.
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Report of the delegation of else United States to the International Whaling Commission held at Washington, D.C., November 20 through December 2, 1946.
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Whitmore, fir. Marine mammals.
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65-98. Fossil marine mammals from Miocene Calvert formation of Maryland and Virginia.
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175-97. lg69 Cetothere skeletons from the Miocene Choptank formation of Maryland and Virginia.
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