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{{Short description|American zoologist}}
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| name                    = Laurence Markham Huey
| image                   = File:Laurence_M_Huey,_Curator_of_Birds_and_Mammals,_SDNHM_(August_1925).jpg
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| caption                 = Huey photographing a tarantula colony, Baja California, 1925. From the photographic collection of the [http://sdnhm.org/science/research-library San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library].
| birth_date              = {{birth date|1892|9|06|mf=y}}
| birth_place             = [[San Diego]], [[California]]
| death_date              = {{death date and age|1963|06|11|1892|9|06|mf=y}}
| death_place             = [[San Diego]], [[California]]
| citizenship             =
| nationality             = American
| field                   = [[Ornithology]], [[Mammalogy]]
| work_institution        = [[San Diego Natural History Museum]]
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'''Laurence Markham Huey''' (1892–1963) was an American zoologist and the Curator of Birds and Mammals at the [[San Diego Natural History Museum]] from 1923 to 1961.<ref name="nat">{{cite web|title=History of our museum: Huey, Laurence (1892-1963)|url=http://www.sdnhm.org/about-us/history/huey/|website=theNAT: San Diego Natural History Museum}}</ref> His main research field was the study of mammals and birds of [[California]] and [[Baja California]]. He also did field work on mammals and birds in Utah and Arizona, in particular at the [[Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument]].
==Career==
Huey was born on 6 September 1892 in [[Tijuana River Valley, San Diego]], California. Of humble origins (Huey left school at 8th grade), he worked in a [[planing mill]] at age 15 and began his self-education in natural history.  At 16, he became a Junior Member of the San Diego Society of Natural History.<ref name=howard>{{cite journal|last1=Howard|first1=H|title=Obituaries - Laurence Markham Huey|journal=The Auk|date=Apr 26, 1965|volume=82|issue=2|page=232}}</ref>
During a trip to [[Coronado Island]] in 1913 he met the ornithologist and mammalogist [[Donald Ryder Dickey]] with whom he worked for the next ten years. In 1923 he became curator of mammals and birds at the [[San Diego Natural History Museum]] until he retired in 1961. From January 1946 to February 1947 he served as acting director of the museum.<ref name="nat"/>
Huey published over 200 articles, several of them in the ornithological journals ''[[The Auk]]'' and ''[[The Condor (journal)|The Condor]]'' as well as in the ''[[Journal of Mammalogy]]'', and the ''Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History''. He described mammal species and subspecies from several families, including ''[[San Quintin kangaroo rat|Dipodomys gravipes]]'',<ref>{{cite journal | last = Huey| first = L. M. | year = 1925| title = Two new kangaroo rats of the genus ''Dipodomys'' from Lower California| journal = Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington| volume = 38| pages = 83–84}}</ref>  ''[[Canyon mouse|Peromyscus crinitus]] pallidissimus'',<ref>{{cite journal | last = Huey| first = L. M. | year = 1931| title = A new subspecies of Peromyscus from the Gulf Coast of Lower California, Mexico| journal = Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History| volume = 6| pages = 389–390| doi = 10.5962/bhl.part.11701 | url = http://brccapi.sdnhm.org/download_file/123/93/| doi-access = free}}</ref> ''[[white-eared pocket mouse|Perognathus alticolus]] inexpectatus'',<ref>{{cite journal | last = Huey| first = L. M. | year = 1926| title = A new Perognathus from the vicinity of Mount Pinos, Kern County, California| journal = Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington| volume = 39| pages = 121–122| url = http://biodiversityheritagelibrary.org/part/43589#/details}}</ref> ''[[Panamint kangaroo rat|Dipodomys panamintinus]] argusensis'',<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Huey | first1 = L. M. | year = 1945 | title = A new race of kangaroo rat from the Argus Mountains, California | url = http://brccapi.sdnhm.org/files/4613/6562/3533/Trans1010_1945_Huey.pdf | journal = Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History | volume = 10 | pages = 131–132 }}</ref> ''[[little pocket mouse|Perognathus longimembris]] internationalis'', and ''[[brush rabbit|Sylvilagus bachmani]] howelli''. He also described some bird taxa, including ''[[yellow-crowned night heron|Nyctanassa violacea]] bancrofti'',<ref>{{cite journal | last = Huey| first = L. M. | year = 1927| title = A Pacific Coast Race of the Yellow-Crowned Night Heron| journal = Condor| volume = 29| issue = 3|pages = 167–168| url = http://sora.unm.edu/node/97297|doi=10.2307/1363084| jstor = 1363084 }}</ref> ''[[northern cardinal|Cardinalis cardinalis]] seftoni'',<ref>{{cite journal| last = Huey| first = L. M. |year = 1940| title = A new Cardinal from central Lower California, Mexico| journal = Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History| volume = 9| pages = 215–218| url = http://brccapi.sdnhm.org/download_file/229/93/}}</ref> ''[[tricolored heron|Egretta tricolor]] occidentalis'',<ref>{{cite journal | last = Huey| first = L. M.  | year = 1927| title = A new Louisiana Heron and a new Round-tailed Ground Squirrel from Lower California, Mexico| journal = Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History| volume = 5| pages = 83–86| doi = 10.5962/bhl.part.11741 | url = http://brccapi.sdnhm.org/download_file/93/93/| doi-access = free}}</ref> and ''[[western screech owl|Megascops kennicottii]] cardonensis''. Overall he is named as author or co-author of 84 species and subspecies.
== Professional Societies ==
At age 16, Huey became a junior member of the San Diego Society of Natural History and in 1923 became a charter member of the Fellows of the Society. He later served terms as president and secretary.  He was a member of the [[American Ornithologists' Union]] from 1920 (an elective member from 1932). Other professional memberships included the [[Cooper Ornithological Society]], the [[Wilson Ornithological Society]], the [[American Society of Mammalogists]], the [[Society of Systematic Biologists|Society of Systematic Zoology]], and the [[Biological Society of Washington]].<ref name=howard /><ref>{{cite news|title=Noted naturalist L. M. Huey dies|work=San Diego Union|date=June 12, 1963|pages=A–21, A–24}}</ref>
He died in [[San Diego]], California on 11 June 1963.
==Footnotes==
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==References==
*{{cite journal|author=H. Howard|title= Obituaries - Laurence Markham Huey|journal=The Auk|volume=82|issue=2|year= 1965|page=323|url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v082n02/p0322-p0326.pdf}}
*{{cite web|website=San Diego Natural History Museum|title= History of the Museum: Laurence Markham Huey (1892 - 1963)|url=http://www.sdnhm.org/about-us/history/huey/}}
== External links ==
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28%22l%20m%20huey%22%20OR%20%22laurence%20m%20huey%22%20OR%20%22huey%2C%20laurence%20m%22%29 Works by Laurence M. Huey at Internet Archive]
*[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?filter=&Search=Search&wc=on&fc=off&globalSearch=&sbbBox=&sbjBox=&sbpBox=&Query=au:%22Laurence+M.+Huey%22&si=1 Works by Laurence M. Huey at JSTOR]
*[https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8kk9j7t/ Finding aid to the Laurence M. Huey Collection, Online Archive of California.]
*[http://www.sdnhm.org/science/research-library/ The San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library] houses a significant collection of Laurence M. Huey's papers and photographs.
*[http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/photographs-laurence-m-huey Photographs of Laurence M. Huey, 1922 to 1962 (MS 241)]. Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries. [http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAMS241.xml (Collection Guide)], Arizona Archives Online
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