Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Holden, Charles Frederick

HOLDEN, CHARLES FREDERICK, an American naturalist; born in Lynn, Mass., 1851. He was assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, from 1870 to 1877. He wrote: “Marvels of Animal Life”; “Wonder Wings”; “A Frozen Dragon, and Other Tales,” a natural-history story-book for young people; “Life of Agassiz”; “Big Game at Sea”; “Game Fishes of the World” (1911); “The Ocean” (1913); “Angling Adventures Around the World” (1914). He died in 1915.