Biography

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

William Dunlap Sargent, an authority on falconry, studied ornithology at Cornell University under Arthur A. Allen, graduating in 1931, receiving an M.S. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1936. He taught limnology and ecology at Cornell, 1932-1936, and taught limnology, stream improvement, conservation, and ornithology at City College of New York. He also illustrated books on biology and was a bird artist.

CHRONOLOGY

1908	Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 15
1926	Graduated from the Lincoln School of Teacher's College Summer Staff Entomologist in the museum maintained by AMAH at Kanokwakke Lakes Scout Camp Entered Cornell University
1927	Summer Junior Nature Counselor, Camp Lincoln, Keeseville, N.Y.
1928	Entomology Museum at Kanokwakke Lakes Camp
1929	Summer Biological Survey of a trout stream for Tuscarora Club, Arena, N.Y.
1930	Summer member of West Virginia University Zoological Field Expedition under Dr. J.G. Needham
1931	B.S., Cornell
1930-1931	Biological Survey of Mashpee River for Mr. J.W. Farley, Boston, Mass.
1932	M.S., Cornell Summer Survey of North Hudson drainage, fish food unit
1932-1936	Instructor of Ecology and Limnology at Cornell
1936	Ph.D., Cornell, in Limnology
1937-1948	Biology Instructor at City College of N.Y.
1948-1961	Assistant Professor, C.C.N.Y.
1961-1965	Associate Professor, C.C.N.Y.
1965	Died