Hall of Fame: H.B. Bigelow

Biographical info Name: Henry Bryant Bigelow Born: 3 October 1879, in Boston; Died: 11 December 1967, at his home in Concord, Massachusetts. PhD: 1906, Harvard. Major Accomplishments: Bigelow accompanied Alexander Agassiz on the Albatross Expeditions to the Tropical Pacific, making valuable observations and descriptions of many species of medusae. He was a curator at the Dept. Invertebrate Zoology at Harvard from 1905-1966. In 1931 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his comprehensive oceanographic work in the Gulf of Maine. He is probably best known as the founder of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on Cape Cod, Massachusetts; he served as its first director from 1931-1940. Honorific taxa: Bigelowia McDonald & Clench, 1934 Bigelowina Schotte & Manni, 1993 Laodicea bigelowi Mayer, 1900 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa] Euphysora bigelowi Maas, 1905 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa] Calycopsis bigelowi Vanhöffen, 1911 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa] Casco bigelowi (Blake, 1929) Calliostoma bigelowi Clench & Aguayo, 1938 Lucaya bigelowi Chace, 1939 Bathyplotes bigelowi Deichmann, 1940 Braarudosphaera bigelowii (Gran et Braarud) Deflandre, 1947 Haliscera bigelowi Kramp, 1947 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa] Zeidora bigelowi Farfante, 1947 Octophialucium bigelowi Kramp, 1955 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa] Neoturris bigelowi Kramp, 1959 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa] Raja (Rajella) bigelowi Stehmann, 1978

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bigelow, H. B. (1904). “Medusae from the Maldive Islands.” Bull. MCZ 39: 245-269.

Bigelow, H. B. (1909a). “Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from Oct. 1904 to March 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XVI The Medusae.” Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 37: 1-243.

Bigelow, H. B. (1909b). “Coelenterates from Labrador and New Foundland.” Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 37(1706): 301-320, pl. 30-32.

Bigelow, H. B. (1909c). “Cruise of the U.S. Fisheries schooner "Grampus" in the Gulf Stream during July, 1908, with description of a new medusa (Bythotiaridae).” Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. at Harvard College 52(12): 196-210, pl. 1.

Bigelow, H. B. (1911a). “Fishes and medusae of the intermediate depths.” Nature 86: 483.

Bigelow, H. B. (1911b). “Biscayan plankton collected during a cruise of H.M.S. 'Research', 1900. Part XIII, The Siphonophora.” Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 10: 337-358, 1 pl.

Bigelow, H. B. (1911c). “The Siphonophorae. Reports of the scientific research expedition to the tropical Pacific. Albatross XXIII.” Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. 38(2): 173-401, 32 pls.

Bigelow, H. B. (1912). “Preliminary account of one new genus and three new species of medusae from the Philippines.” Proceedings USNM 43: 253-260.

Bigelow, H. B. (1912). “Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, from October 1904, to March 1905, Lieutenant Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XXVI. The ctenophores.” Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. 54(12): 369-408.

Bigelow, H. B. (1913). “Medusae and Siphonophorae collected by the U.S. Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in the north-western Pacific, 1906.” United States National Museum. Proceedings. Washington 44(no. 1946): 1-119, pls. 1-6.

Bigelow, H. B. (1914). “Exploration in the Gulf of Maine, July August, 1912, by US Fisheries "Schooner Grampus" Oceanography and notes on the plankton.” Bull. MCZ Harv. 58: 29-147, pls. 1-9.

Bigelow, H. B. (1914). “Note on the medusan genus Stomolophus from San Diego.” Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 13: 239-241.
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Bigelow, H. B. (1914). “Oceanography and plankton of Massachussetts Bay and adjacent waters, Nov. 1912 May 1913.” Bull. MCZ Harv. 58: 393-419.

Bigelow, H. B. (1914b). “Fauna of New England. 12. List of the medusae craspedotae, siphonophorae, scyphomedusae, ctenophorae.” Boston Society of Natural History. Occasional Papers 7(part 12): 1-37.

Bigelow, H. B. (1915). “Eperetmus, a new genus of Trachomedusae.” Proc. U.S. Mus., Nat. 49: 399-404, 1 pl.

Bigelow, H. B. (1915). “Exploration of the coast water between Nova Scotia and Chesapeake Bay, July and August, 1913, by the U.S. Fisheries "Schooner Grampus" Oceanography and plankton. Medusae, siphonophores and ctenophores.” Bull. MCZ Harv. 59: 149-359.

Bigelow, H. B. (1916). “Halimedusa, a new genus of Anthomedusae.” Trans. Roy. soc. Can. 10(Sect. 4): 91-96, pl. 1.

Bigelow, H. B. (1918). “Some medusae and siphonophorae from the western Atlantic.” Bull. MCZ 62(8): 365-442, 8 pls.

Bigelow, H. B. (1919). “Hydromedusae, Siphonophores and Ctenophores of the "Albatross" Philippine Expedition. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions.” Bull. US Nat. Mus., Bull. 100 1(part 5): 279-362, pl. 39-43.

Bigelow, H. B. (1920). “Medusae and Ctenophores from the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918. Part H. Medusae and Ctenophora.” Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 8: Mollusks, Echinoderms, Coelenterates, etc.: 19 pp.

Bigelow, H. B. (1922). “Exploration of the coastal waters off the north eastern United States in 1916 by the U.S. Fisheries "Schooner Grampus".” Bull. MCZ Harv. 65: 85-188.

Bigelow, H. B. (1924). “... ctenophora...” Bull. U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, V XL: p. 365.

Bigelow, H. B. (1926). “Plankton of the offshore waters of the Gulf of Maine.” Bull. Bur. Fish., Wash. 40(1924, part 2, doc. No. 968): 1-509, figs 1-134.

Bigelow, H. B. (1928). “Scyphomedusae from the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition.” Zoologica 8: 495-524.

Bigelow, H. B. (1931). “Siphonophorae from the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition.” Zoologica 8(11): 525-592.

Bigelow, H. B. (1938). “Plankton of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions. VIII. Medusae taken during the years 1929 and 1930.” Zoologica, N.Y. 23 (part 2)(5-9): 99-189, text-figs. 1-23.

Bigelow, H. B. (1940). “Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XX. Medusae of the Templeton Crocker and Eastern Pacific Zaca Expeditions, 1936-1938.” Zoologica 25(19): 281-321.

Bigelow, H. B. and M. Leslie (1930). “Reconnaisance of the waters and plankton of Monterey Bay, July, 1928.” Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 70(5): 429-581, figs. 1-43.

Bigelow, H. B. and M. Sears (1937). “Siphonophorae.” Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas 2. Biology(2): 1-144, 83 figs.

LINKS

Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names (BEMON)

Bigelow biography at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Bigelow biography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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