15 Facts About Remington Kellogg

Arthur Remington Kellogg was an American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum.

Remington Kellogg built up his own small collection of mounted birds and mammals and by the time he came to choose a university he had determined he would become a naturalist.

Remington Kellogg published his first paper as a result of his work with Bunker.

Remington Kellogg was given a teaching fellowship at the behest of John C Merriam, and studied fossil pinnipeds, producing his first important papers on the subject in 1920 and 1921.

Remington Kellogg served in the Army in France during World War I, but still found time to collect specimens which he sent back to Berkeley and the University of Kansas.

Remington Kellogg was discharged in July 1919 and returned to Berkeley to complete his doctorate, transferring from zoology to study vertebrate paleontology under Merriam.

Remington Kellogg undertook a study to determine whether alligators were a predatory risk to help resolve controversy over their hunting.

Remington Kellogg added considerably to the collections created by previous expeditions and used the experience he gained as the basis for his Ph.

In 1928 Remington Kellogg became assistant curator at the United States National Museum and in 1941 became curator.

Remington Kellogg was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951.

Remington Kellogg was later elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1955 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960.

Remington Kellogg was head of the US delegation in two further conferences in 1944 and 1945 and was chairman of the 1946 conference, after which he became the US commissioner on International Whaling Commission between 1949 and 1967.

Remington Kellogg served as vice-chairman of the Commission between 1949 and 1951 and chairman between 1952 and 1954.

Remington Kellogg retired from his posts at the Smithsonian in 1962, but continued to work on his study of Miocene Cetacea, publishing nine papers on fossil marine mammals between 1965 and 1969.

Remington Kellogg died of a heart attack at his home in Washington on 8 May 1969 whilst recuperating from a broken pelvis.