Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Beebe, (Charles) William

BEEBE, (CHARLES) WILLIAM, an American ornithologist and writer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1877. He graduated from Columbia University in 1898 and in the following year took post-graduate courses in that institution. In 1902 he was appointed curator of ornithology at the New York Zoological Park and was director also of the British Guiana Zoological Station. He carried on many researches in British Guiana and contributed many articles to scientific and popular magazines. Among his published writings are "Two Bird Lovers in Mexico" (1905); "Our Search for a Wilderness" (1910); "Tropical Wild Life" (1917); "Monograph of the Peasants" (1918); etc. He was a frequent contributor to magazines.