Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950

found: Wikipedia, July 30, 2014(Leonard Cutler Sanford; American surgeon and amateur ornithologist who served as a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History for nearly thirty years and who was instrumental in building up its bird collections; Sanford was born on September 19, 1868 in New Haven, Connecticut; he graduated from Yale University and pursued a successful career as a surgeon; his main interest throughout his life was ornithology; he became an Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1902, and a Life Associate in 1919; as well as acquiring many specimens of rare and extinct species for the museum's collection, he instigated a major collecting expedition to South America by persuading philanthropist Frederick F. Brewster of New Haven to finance it; the Brewster-Sanford Expedition, headed by Rollo Beck, took place from 1912 to 1917 and produced a large number of specimens, providing the basis for studies resulting in the publication of Robert Cushman Murphy's two-volume "“Oceanic Birds of South America;" Sanford died on December 7, 1950 at his winter home in Florida; he is commemorated in the names of Sanford's Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus sanfordi), Sanford's Bowerbird (Archboldia sanfordi), and Sanford's Brown Lemur (Eulemur sanfordi); publications: Sanford, L.C., Bishop, L.B. & Van Dyke, T.S. (1903), The Water-Fowl Family, American Sportsman's Library, Macmillan)

found: ancestry.com, July 30, 2014(Leonard Cutler Sanford; born September 19, 1868 in New Haven, CT; died December 7, 1950 in Stuart, FL)

found: OCLC, July 30, 2014(access points: Sanford, Leonard; Sanford, Leonard C.; Sanford, Leonard Cutler, 1860-; Sanford, Leonard Cutler, 1869-; usage: L.C. Sanford)