Edward Alexander Preble

Edward Alexander Preble (born in Somerville, Massachusetts on (1871-06-11)June 11, 1871; died October 4, 1957(1957-10-04) (aged 86)) was an American naturalist and conservationist. He is noted for work in studying birds and mammals of the Pacific Northwest. He also acted as an editor for nature magazines.[1]

Ernest Thompson Seton and Edward Alexander Preble leaving Athabaska Landing, May 17, 1907.

In 1908, Preble published a report on the natural history of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region, or "Boreal America". This monograph was based his two expeditions, in 1901 and again in 1903-4, with the U.S. Biological Survey.[2]

In 1907, Preble and Ernest Thompson Seton discovered the remains of a wolf pack near a long abandoned cabin at the Great Slave Lake in Canada. The two verified the claim of the American frontiersman Charles "Buffalo" Jones, who a full decade earlier in 1897-1898 had traveled to the Arctic Circle in an attempt to capture live musk oxen. Jones had claimed that he and his party shot and fended off the hungry wolves from inside their cabin.[3]

In 1925 Preble became a Consulting Naturalist for Nature Magazine.[4] When he retired from government service, in 1935, he became one of the journal's Associate Editors - a position he held until his death in 1957.

References
  1. Edward Alexander Preble's papers at the Smithsonian Institution
  2. Edward Alexander Preble. "A Biological Investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region". North American Fauna. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 27: 1–574. doi:10.3996/nafa.27.0001. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  3. "Buffalo Jones". h-net.msu.edu. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2010.
  4. "Preble, Edward Alexander, 1871-1957".
  5. IPNI.  Preble.


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