Description
A collection of material related to the
professional career of George Suckley, American Army surgeon and naturalist.
Background
George Suckley (1830-1869) was an United States Army surgeon and naturalist. In 1852
Suckley served as resident surgeon in the New York hospital; in the following year, 1853, he
became assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army in which capacity he served until 1856. It was
during this period that he was engaged as surgeon and naturalist for the Northern Pacific
Railroad Route Survey led by Isaac Ingalls Stevens. The party made explorations and
scientific investigations from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Puget Sound in Washington from 1853
to 1857. Suckley pursued his ornithological interest sending specimens to Spencer Fullerton
Baird at the Smithsonian Institution and to John Cassin at the Philadelphia Academy of
Science as well as creating a private collection. Suckley collaborated with James G. Cooper
on The natural history of Washington territory, which was published in 1859. In 1861, he was
a Brigade surgeon and in 1865, a staff surgeon in the U. S. Volunteers. Suckley died in New
York in 1869.
Extent
3 Linear Feet
(1 box, 1 oversize folder)
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