User:Matthewhalley

I am a scientist and historian based at the Delaware Museum of Natural History. I completed my PhD at Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. My work on Wikipedia is produced independently of my affiliations with those institutions. My primary goal as a Wikipedia editor is to create and expand pages for poorly-known people involved in the history of science. I also make occasional edits to existing pages, usually to add sources and expand content. I am softly focused on American science during the period 1700–1850.

I am also an editor for the peer-reviewed journal Neotropical Naturalist (Eagle Hill) and the former editor of Cassinia, journal of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club.

Pages I've created:

 * Katharine (Clark) Harding Day (February 10, 1891– ?), American ornithologist
 * Reuben Haines (1727–1793), American brewer
 * Reuben Haines III (1786–1831), Quaker scientist and social reformer
 * Jane (Bowne) Haines (1792–1843), American horticulturalist and educational reformer
 * Sophonisba Anguiscola (Peale) Sellers (1786–1859), American ornithologist
 * Titian Ramsay Peale I (1780–1798), American ornithologist
 * Livezey House
 * John Krider (1813–1886), American gunsmith and ornithologist
 * Isaiah Lukens (1779–1846), American clockmaker
 * Delaware Valley Ornithological Club
 * Miers Fisher (June 21, 1748 – March 12, 1819), Quaker lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania
 * Keith Russell, living ornithologist from Philadelphia, Pennsylania
 * Captain George Ord, Sr., naval captain during the American Revolution and father of George Ord the ornithologist

Pages I've made significant edits to:

 * Catharus (genus of birds)
 * Baculites (genus of extinct cephalopods)
 * Wyck House
 * Thomas Say
 * Charles Alexandre Lesueur
 * John James Audubon
 * Alexander Wilson
 * Titian Ramsay Peale
 * George Ord
 * Ornithology
 * Phrenology
 * Thomas H. Montgomery Jr., American zoologist
 * Benjamin Preston Clark, American entomologist
 * Cassinia, journal of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club
 * Bird Names For Birds, social movement to rename eponyms of American birds