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Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (born 1886)

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Alexander Wetmore

American ornithologist and avian paleontologist (1886–1978)

Frank Alexander Wetmore was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was also an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences.
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