Last Title
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Special Fields
Ornithology, systematics, zoogeography, evolution, history and philosophy of biology
Education
1925	Cand. med., University of Greifswald
1926	Ph.D., University of Berlin (Zoology) (24 June)
Expeditions
1928	Rothschild Expedition to Dutch New Guinea
1928-29	Expedition to Mandated Territory of New Guinea (University of Berlin)
1929-30	Whitney Expedition to Solomon Islands (American Museum of Natural History)
Positions
1926-32	Assistant Curator, Zoological Museum, University of Berlin
1932-44	Associate Curator, Whitney-Rothschild Collection, American Museum of Natural History, New York
1944-53	Curator, Whitney-Rothschild Collection, AMNH, New York (to 30 June 1953)
1953-75	Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University
1961-70	Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
1975-	Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, Harvard University
Honorary Degrees
1957	Ph.D., Uppsala University (Sweden)
1959	D.Sc., Yale University
1959	D.Sc., University of Melbourne (Australia)
1966	D.Sc., Oxford University (England)
1968	D.PhiI., University of Munich (Germany)
1974	D.Phil., University of Paris VI (Sorbonne)
1979	D.Sc., Harvard University
1982	D.Sc., Cambridge University
1982	D.Sc., Guelph University (Canada)
1984	D.Sc., University of Vermont
1993	Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1994	D.Sc., University of Vienna
1994	D.Phil., University of Konstanz
1995	D. Sc., University of Bologna
1996	D. Sc., Rollins College
1997	Honoris Causae Degree, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Lectureships and Visiting Professorships
1941	Jesup Lecturer, Columbia University
1947	Lecturer, Philadelphia Academy of Sciences
1949;1974	Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
1950-53	Lecturer, Columbia University
1951	Visiting Professor, University of Pavia, Italy
1952	Visiting Professor, University of Washington
1967	Life Sciences Lecturer, University of California, Davis
1971	Maytag Visiting Professor, Arizona State University
1972	Visiting Professor, University of California, Riverside
1977	Alexander v. Humboldt Awardee, Wurzburg Universitat
1978	Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego
1978	Visiting Professor, College de France, Paris
1985	Messenger Lectures, Cornell University
1987	Hitchcock Professorship, University of California
Special Awards
1946	Leidy Medal, Academy of Nat. Sc., Philadelphia
1958	Wallace Darwin Medal, Linnean Society of London
1965	Brewster Medal, American Ornithologists' Union
1966	Verrill Medal, Peabody Museum, Yale University
1967	Daniel Giraud Eliot Medal, National Acad. of Sci.
1969	Centennial Medal, American Museum of Natural History
1969	National Medal of Science
1971	Walker Prize, Museum of Science, Boston, MA
1972	Molina Prize, Accademia del le Scienze, Bologna, Italy
1977	Linnean Medal (Zoology), Linnean Society, London
1977	Coues Prize, American Ornithologists' Union
1978	Premio Jabuti, Brazil, CBL
1978	Medal, College de France
1980	Mendel Medal, Leopoldina Academy (Halle)
1983	E. Eisenmann Medal, Linn. Soc. of New York
1983	Balzan Prize
1984	Darwin Medal, Royal Society
1986	Award for Service to the Systematics Community by the Association of Systematics Collection
1986	Sarton Medal (History of Science)
1989	Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Medal
1991	Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize
1994	Salvin Godman medal, British Ornithologists' Union
1994	International Prize for Biology, Japan Prize
1994	Dedication of the Ernst Mayr Library at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
1995	Walk of Fame, Rollins College
1995	Benjamin Franklin Medal (American Philosophical Society)
1996	George Gaylord Simpson Award (Society for the Study of Evolution)
1997	Establishment of the Ernst Mayr Lectureship at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie
1998	Lewis Thomas Prize
1998	Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books
1999	Crafoord Prize
2000	Doctor rerum naturalium honoris causa Award from the Humboldt University of Berlin
2001	Golden Plate Award(American Academy of Achievement)
Honorary Society Memberships
1939	Royal Australian Ornithological Union, Corresponding Member
1941	Deutsche Ornithologen Gesellschaft, Honorary Member
1943	American Society of Naturalists, Honorary Member
1945	Netherlands Ornithological Society, Corresponding Member; 1953, Honorary Member
1948	Societe Ornithologique de France, Honorary Foreign Member
1948	Zoological Society of London, Corresponding Member
1949	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Correspondent
1951	Botanical Gardens of Indonesia, Honorary Member
1951	Ornithologische Gesellschaft in Bayern, Corresponding Member; 1976, Honorary Member
1952	Linaean Society of London, Foreign Member
1952	South African Ornithological Society, Corresponding Member
1950	Royal Society of New Zealand
1954	American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow
1954	National Academy of Sciences, Member
1955	K. Vetenskaps Societeten, Uppsala, Honorary Member
1955	Zoological Society of India, Corresponding Fellow; 1961, Honorary Member
1956	British Ornithological Union, Honorary Member
1956	Dansk Ornithologisk Forening, Honorary Member
1958	American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
1962	La Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales, Corresponding Member
1963	Asociacion Ornithologica Del Plata (Buenos Aires), Honorary Member
1963	Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Helsingfors), Honorary Member
1965	American Philosophical Society, Member
1968	Sociedad Colombiana de Naturalistas, Honorary Member
1970	Zoologische Gesellschaft, Germany, Honorary Member
1971	Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales (Caracas, Foreign Corresponding Member
1972	Department of Ornithology, AMNH, Curator Emeritus
1972	Deut. Akad. Naturforscher (Leopoldina)
1972	Societe Zoologique de France, Member d'honneur
1975	Sociedad Espanola de Ornitologia (Madrid), Honorary Member
1975	Nuttall Ornithological Club, Honorary Member
1976	Society of Systematic Zoology, Honorary Member
1976	Linnean Society of New York, Honorary Member
1977	Senckenbergische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt, Korrespond. Mitgtd>
1977	Bayerische Adademie, Mu"nchen, Korrespond. Mitglied
1978	Academie des Sciences, etc., Toulouse, Corresponding Member
1980	Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Foreign Member
1981	Italian Zoological Society, Foreign Member
1984	Zool. Soc. of London, Honorary Member
1986	American Society of Zoologists, Honorary Member
1988	Royal Society, Foreign Member
1989	Academie des Sciences, Paris, Associate
1993	Center for the Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh (Honorary Fellow)
1994	Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
1994	Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie
1998	Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Korrespond. Mitglied.

Society Memberships and Offices
American Ornithologists' Union	Vice President, 1953-56; President, 1956-59
American Society of Naturalists	President, 1962-63
Linnean Society of New York	Secretary-editor, 1934-41; Fellow, 1944
New York Zoological Society	Fellow, 1944; Scientific Fellow, 1987
Society for the Study of Evolution	Secretary, 1946; Editor, 1947-49; President, 1950
Society of Systematic Zoology	President, 1966
11th International Zoological Congress	Vice President, 1958
13th International Ornithological Congress	President, 1962

List of Books
I Sole Authorship
1941	List of New Guinea birds. A systematic and faunal list of the birds of New Guinea and adjacent islands.The American Museum Natural History, 1-260.
1942	Systematics and the Origin of Species. New York: Columbia University Press.
1945	Birds ofthe Southwest Pacific. New York: The Macmillan Co.
1963	Animal Species and Evolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
1989	Principles of Systematic Zoology. New York: McGraw-Hill.
1970	Populations, Species, and Evolution. An abridgement of Animal Species and Evolution. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
1976	Evolution and the Diversfty of Life. Selected Essays. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
1981	La biologie d'evolution. Paris: Hermann.
1982	The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
1988	Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
1991	One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
1997	This is Biology: The Science of the Living Wodd. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
II Coauthor
1929	Zeitschriftenverzeichnis des Museums fu..r Naturkunde. Miftellungen aus dem Zooiogischen Museum in Berlln 14:1-187 (with Wilhelm Meise).
1946	Birds of the Phillppines. New York: The Macmillan Co. (with Jean Delacour).
1953	Methods and Principles of Systematic Zoology. New York: McGraw-Hill (with E.G. Linsley and R. L. Usinger).
1990	Principles of Systematic Zoology. Revised ed. New York: McGraw-Hill (with Peter Ashlock).
III Editor
1949	Genetics, Paleontology, and Evolution. Edited by Glenn L. Jepsen, George Gaylord Simpson, and Ernst Mayr. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1949	Ornithologie als biologische wissenschaft. Festsch rift zum 60. Geburtstag von Erwin Stresemann. Edited by Ernst Mayr and E. Schuz. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.
1957	The Species Problem. Edited by Ernst Mayr. Publication No.50 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1960, 1962, 1964,1986.	Check-List of birds of the world, vol.9,10,11,15. Edited by Ernst Mayr and Co-Editors. Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology.
1980	The Evolutionary Synthesis. Edited by Ernst Mayr and William Provine. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
Book List:
1929	Zeitschriftenverzeichnis des Museums fur Naturkunde Mittellungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 14. 187pp. (with W. Meise).
1941	List of New Guinea Birds. American Museum of Natural History, New York. 260 pp.
1942	Systematics and the Origin of Species. Columbia University Press, New York. 330 pp.
1945	Birds of the Southwest Pacific. Macmillan Company, New York. 316 pp.
1946	Birds of the PhiliDpines. Macmillan Company, New York. 309 pp. (with J. Delacour)
1953	Methods and Principles of Systematic Zoology. McGraw-Hill, New York. 328 pp. (with E.G. Linsley and R.L. Usinger)
1957	(Editor) The Species Problem. American Association for the Advancement of Science,Publication No.50, 395 pp.
1960-1986	(Editor) Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. IX, X, XI, XV. Harvard: MCZ.
1963	Animal Species and Evolution. Belknap Press (Harvard University), Cambridge, MA. 797 pp.
1969	Principles of Systematic Zoology. McGraw-Hill, New York. 428 pp.
1970	Populations, Species, and Evolution. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA. 453 pp.
1976	Evolution and the Diversity of Life. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA. 721 pp.
1980	(Editor, with William B. Provine) The Evolutionary Synthesis . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 487 pp.
1981	La biologie de l'evolution. Hermann, Paris. 175pp.
1982	The Growth of Biological Thought. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 974 pp.
1988	Toward a New PhilosoDhv of Biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 564pp.
1991	PrinciDles of Systematic Zoology, 2nd. ed. (wi Peter Ashlock), McGraw-Hill. 475pp.
1991	One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Evolutionary Thought. Harvard University Press. 187 pp.
1997	This is Biology: The Science of the Living World . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

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