Species Named After
Two insects, four mammals and nine birds were named after Joseph Grinnell. The Sitka Kinglet (Regulus calendula grinnelli) was the first species named for Grinnell by ornithologist William Palmer in 1897. (Palmer was also a taxidermist and prepared the remains of the last Passenger Pigeon "Martha" when she died in 1914 at the Cincinnati, Ohio zoological gardens.)
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