Albert Smith Bickmore

Albert Smith Bickmore (1839 to 1914) was an American naturalist and the originator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, becoming one of its founders. He was born in the town of St. George near Martinsville harbor, Maine, on 1 March 1839, and attributed his love of nature and his vocation as a naturalist to a childhood spent on the beach and near a forest. As a child he collected shells and sea urchins and learned the names of the local flora and fauna, and at the age of eight he spent a year traveling in France with his parents and sister. The source lead and childhood account read for this entry cover his founding role and his early life, so his later expeditions, teaching and writing are left to further research.